reading (farsighted) glasses; spectacles for the aged
muahaha (laughter); mwahahaha; bahaha; bwahaha
having one's guard up; not showing weak points; (of women) resisting attempts of being hit on; being distrustful of potential love interests; prudish
expresses displeasure or disapproval; just from (doing); simply by
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
sprouting; budding; young shoot; moe; fascination; infatuation (esp. towards anime and manga characters)
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. of a debate); excitement; soaring (of prices); shooting up
speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)
patience; endurance; perseverance
dear; darling; adorable; precious; cute; lovely
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
becoming irritated (suddenly); getting annoyed
to kick (hard); to send flying with a kick; to kick away; to reject flatly; to refuse outright; to turn down
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
to blow off (strongly); to blow away; to drive away (e.g. one's worries); to dispel; to do at great speed (e.g. drive a car); to carry out (a task) very quickly
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
to (see and) choose; to select; to diagnose (as); to judge; to estimate; to liken (to)
equation; formula; method for solving a problem; set way of achieving a particular result
to become dull; to become lifeless; to get bored; to lose interest; to lose value after a peak (e.g. stock); to weaken (of the market)
difficult; tough; formidable; redoubtable; stubborn
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation (for the stage or screen); embellishment (of the facts); exaggeration; dramatization
roar of laughter (from multiple people); burst of laughter; uproarious laughter; laughing hard (of a single person)
dissolution; dissolving; solution (e.g. chemical); melting; liquefying; fusion
calm; composed; leisurely
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
haughty; arrogant; supercilious
bare rock; rock surface; rock face
interior; inside; internal
eruption; volcanic eruption
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
village; hamlet; countryside; country
fertile; rich; productive
earth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)
last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
risky; dangerous; suggestive; bordering on the obscene; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) harsh