aggressive; pushy; in-your-face
very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
the same kind; accomplice; partner
to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase
astounding; tremendous; crazy; exorbitant
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)
he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period
misprint; typographical error; typo
dakuten; diacritic kana mark that turns an unvoiced consonant into a voiced consonant
the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)
handakuten; diacritic kana mark that turns h into p
threesome (sexual activity)
bribe; secret fund; slush fund; money for bribery
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
judgement; judgment; decision; adjudication; award; verdict
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
archipelago; group of islands
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling
to grab at; to clutch; to grapple with
move with haste (when you have no doubts)
a little late; somewhat late; latish; a little slow; somewhat slow
form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)
favourable; favorable; promising; satisfactory; in good shape
Szechuan cuisine; Sichuan cuisine
computer output microfilm system; COM
improvisation; improvised; impromptu; extempore
Japanese pampas grass (Miscanthus sinensis); maiden silvergrass; zebra grass
to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on
sailfin sandfish (Arctoscopus japonicus); Japanese sandfish
deep sea; depths of the sea; ocean depths
look!; there!; here!; that is