wood chip; splinter; worthless thing; worthless person
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
to gain a reputation; to make oneself famous
to jump at; to be attracted by
stagnation; hindrance; delay
urgency; exigency; emergency
should do; ought to do; must do
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
spirit; drive; vigour; ambition; aspiration
getting deeply involved; going deeply into; going too far (into something)
grandfather; male senior-citizen
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
strenuous effort; earnestness; seriousness
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
to make progress; to develop; to evolve (method, style, etc.)
legal guardians' association; parents' association (at a school); parent-teacher's meeting
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
small child; kid; kiddy; tot; rug rat; ankle-biter
to become decrepit; to become senile
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
conferral of a posthumous rank
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
full of energy; full of liveliness; full of pep
delay; lag; postponement; falling behind
restive horse; unmanageable person (esp. a woman); shrew; stubborn tomboy
(another's) daughter; young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing)
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
precocious; precocious child
lack of uniformity; unevenness; inequality; heterogeneous; nonuniform
molding; moulding; shaping; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling
giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
verbal check (esp. on railroads); verbal confirmation
grave marker; gravestone; headstone; writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.)