dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
intolerable; unbearable; tremendous; out of this world; cannot help (doing); cannot but do
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
to confess; to speak out; to disclose; to tell
to show off; to make a display (e.g. of wealth)
taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction
drinking bout; merrymaking
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
to hypnotize; to hypnotise
the whole company; the party; attendance (at a gathering); presence; banquet; dinner; troupe
quizzical; puzzled; inquisitive; suspicious; doubtful
outrageous; monstrous; appalling; inordinate; overambitious
blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space
pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of
to shine; to glow; to look attractive; to look nice; to be set off (by)
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly
another's parent; another's parents
feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; (arch.) shrinking back in fear
to head home; to leave for home
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
one by one; in detail; minutely
violent (fight); slashing and striking; hand-to-hand
with a bump; with a clunk; yelp (e.g. of a fox); bark; howl
offence; offense; hindrance
to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am