briskly; smartly; promptly; clearly; lucidly
self-satisfied look; triumphant look; smug face; shit-eating grin
tearing; ripping; crunching; munching; stiff; starchy; (working) hard
some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)
road maintenance; road improvement
lazy; idle; indolent; slothful
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.)
mint (e.g. peppermint, spearmint, etc.); Japanese peppermint (Mentha arvensis var. piperascens)
first 10 days of the month
(raw) ore; unpolished gemstone
small factory in town; backstreet (small) workshop
university graduate; having graduated from university
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
joining a company; getting a job with a company; entering a company
diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted
acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back); handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order); handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)
meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast
basic overview; basic concept
descendant; posterity; offspring
at a young age; while still young
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
being absorbed in; losing oneself in; losing control of oneself
to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath
change of occupation; career change
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
unfavourably; unfavorably; disparagingly; insultingly; ill
habitable area; inhabitable land
whole year; all year round; always; all the time; during an era; middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)
well digging; well digger
to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down