creaking; squeaking; packing in tightly; cramming; hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
setting a question (for an exam, quiz, etc.); setting a theme (for composition of poetry)
with a burble; hollow (sounding); holey; full of holes or dents; here and there; (sound of) walking slowly
individual; one by one; separate; each
waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)
water system; river system; drainage system
to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)
relation; connection; relevance
to allow; to let (someone) do; to make (someone) do
counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation
(any) particular; special; particularly noteworthy; worth mentioning
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
divergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off
to lose one's way; to get lost
to write down; to note down; to mention; to describe; to inscribe; to mark
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)
this and that; one thing and another
disapproval; reluctance; unwillingness
money-worship; mammon-worship
constant; steady; constant
identification papers; ID
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)
layout (of a house or apartment); arrangement of rooms
area; zone; district; quarter; section; limits
islander; inhabitant of an island
big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with
to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of; to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle
troublesome; annoying; complicated
head office; main office; main store; this store; our store
spending excessively on in-game items
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
chopsticks; (something) at hand; (in) one's possession; (near) one's hands
coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)
(giving) instruction (esp. in the secrets of an art, discipline, etc.); initiation; teaching; passing on; imparting