attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
dirty work; unpleasant task
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts
organic; coordinated; working in a coordinated fashion
linear; rectilinear; straight-line; straightforward; simple
to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
remarkably; noticeably; visibly; considerably; perceptibly; appreciably
in the end; finally; after all; ultimately
compass (for drawing circles, etc.); pair of compasses; (mariner's) compass; length of one's stride; length of one's legs
failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop
to appear; to start to appear; to show signs of appearing
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
hometown; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation
to wither (of flowers, dreams, etc.); to wilt; to droop; to shrivel; to fade (away); to sag
the country; countryside; outskirts; suburbs; presence; being in attendance
draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish
sensitivity (e.g. of a measuring instrument); reception (radio, TV, etc.); sensitivity (of film)
to take notice (of); to pay attention (to)
excellent; very good; exultant; elated
slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
blood relative; close relation; (one's) flesh and blood; flesh and blood; the body
to want; to wish for; (arch.) to request; (arch.) to demand; (arch.) to seek; (arch.) to search for
actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)
heavenly body; celestial body; astronomical object
reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction
random; unintentional; unintended
to leave as it is; to defer
beating (inflicted as punishment); mob violence; mob justice
focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)
cleaning up (enemy remnants); sweeping clean (of opponents); mopping up
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
modern language; contemporary language; living language; modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)
to become an adult woman; to come of age; to lose one's virginity (of a woman); to become sexually active
to be covertly swapped; to be replaced (e.g. with a counterfeit)
to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)