cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
cleaning; dry cleaning; laundry service
summer clothes; summer wear; summer uniform
to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in
hair disarranged during sleep; bed hair; habit of moving around in one's sleep; tossing and turning in sleep; sleeping habit (esp. of a child or toddler)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to make sure; to check; to ascertain; to confirm; to verify
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
to send; to dispatch; to see (someone) off; to escort; to bid farewell to (the departed); to say goodbye to; to spend (time)
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
senior high school student
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
danger; peril; hazard; risk
school route; street used by students going to and from school (esp. on foot)
while; even though; despite
holiday; vacation; day off; time off; leave; furlough
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; prone to; apt to
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
link; linking; link; hyperlink; linking (of object files); linkage
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
monster; monstrosity; giant; influential figure; monsterlike; over-demanding
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence