firstborn; first-produced; newborn
impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
verbalization; putting into words
weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
the number of people; many people; a large number of people
to rise; to swell; to intensify; to increase; to grow stronger; to get higher
fullness; completeness; enhancement; improvement; replenishment; repletion
critical (condition); serious
tendency; trend; inclination
to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)
Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
phantom; vision; illusion
leone (currency of Sierra Leone)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing
to tear off; to strip off; to rip off; to rob (someone) of (clothes); to divest (someone) of (powers, rank, etc.)
one's own property; possessions
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
to head home; to leave for home
to turn one's head; to look over one's shoulder; to turn around; to think back (on); to reminisce; to look back (on)
(in the) presence (of); in front (of); before (someone)
please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
shell (of a crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; (person's) back; years of experience
to come apart; to unravel; to come loose; to become disarrayed (e.g. of hair)
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
to gust; to blow violently
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
shooting; firing; emitting; ejection; projection; injection
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
what would (you) do?; what to do about it
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
raising one's hand; show of hands (e.g. for a vote); salute
permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis