commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
equality; impartiality; evenness
to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
bad guy; villain; evildoer; scoundrel
simple; easy; convenient; handy
abruptly (rising); slowly (rising); plump; rotund
tearing (along a perforated edge); peeling off (a plastic film, sticker, etc.)
starching (e.g. clothes); pasting; gluing (e.g. paper, a letter)
inner canthus; inner corner of the eye
load; heavy burden; encumbrance; heavy freight; heavy responsibility
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
mockery by means of excessive praise; damning with lavish praise; backhanded compliment
to crush to death; to stifle to death; to squeeze to death; to stifle (a laugh, etc.); to muffle (one's breathing); to subdue (one's voice)
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)
of late; lately; this part; this point; here
to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to
feel uneasy; on tenterhooks; in suspense; on pins and needles
to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything
pressure; oppression; suppression
(very) patient; persevering
mental illness; emotional disorder
a lot more; much more; and then some; and plenty more than that
smoothly; easily; readily
near; close; beside; third person
to hug tight; to grasp firmly; to embrace tightly
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
price; cost; charge; consideration (in a contract)
sexual excitement; estrus; oestrus; rut; (coming into) heat
simplistic (thinking, idea, etc.); hasty
unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
to arrange (one's) shoes (e.g. in a genkan)
to go past; to pass; to pass by
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
remote past; far ago; time immemorial
schoolgirl; female student