advance; moving forward; progress
difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty
smooth (i.e. without problems)
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
to tell (on someone); to tattle; to snitch
to be too late; to be too slow
shameful; disgraceful; unsightly; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
to be helpful; to be dependable; to stand by (someone)
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
sudden turn; sudden change; (suddenly occurring) accident; emergency
to squeeze out; to wring out
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight
as expected; as predicted
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
to be certain of; to have faith in; to believe completely; to trust (someone completely)
bad luck; ill fortune; misfortune
to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as); to think of (as)
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
making rapid progress; making great advances; rush; dash; onslaught
to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out
inside; interior; (within) one's mind; one's soul; one's heart
at any time; at any moment; when; at what moment
in public; in company; in the presence of others
next term; next period; next version; next release
to speak words (of); to speak (to); to say (something); to say some (kind, comforting, etc.) words
to burst (open); to break; to split
here and there; in places
slight; light; thin; faint; dim
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull