insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
(an) unknown; unknown number; variable; unknown quantity; not yet known
not worth considering; out of the question
gun; wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice; puffer fish
determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech; (arch.) divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
courting; wooing; making advances
to insert; to put in; to send in (to a prisoner; e.g. clothes, books); to deliver (food, refreshments, etc. to workers); to supply
push; pushing; weight; pressure; authority; forcefulness
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance
great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam
pork miso soup; miso soup with pork and vegetables
interested person; volunteer; supporter
preliminary arrangements; spade work
craftsman; artisan; workman; carpenter
Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)
shō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 litres
1,000,000; one million; million; many
to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted
absorption; suction; attraction
to rinse; to wash out; to have one's revenge; to wipe out a disgrace
replacement; substitution; change; shunting (rail); switching
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
I can relate (to that); that happens to me as well; that's all too familiar to me; something often encountered or experienced; something many people can relate to; all-too-familiar story
after tax income; net income
to rub together (e.g. one's hands)
to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with
to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)
bathing (in a lake, river, or in the sea); playing in the water; playing with water
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place
one revolution; one rotation
burying one's head in the sand (while leaving other parts of one's body exposed); exposing one's weak point while attempting to protect oneself; (lit.) hiding one's head without hiding one's bottom