horse; horse racing; promoted bishop
third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
to be much obliged (to someone); to receive favor (favour); to be indebted; to be grateful
robust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy
to clamour; to crowd; to jostle
battlefield; battleground
foil; (gold, etc.) leaf; prestige
overall victory; championship
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
homecoming; returning home
O-Bon; Obon; Bon Festival; tray
for a short while; for a while; for some time; for the time being
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air
air conditioning; air cooling
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
ray of light; ray of hope; promising talent
to cease; to stop; to be over
from here; from this place
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
always; constantly; frequently; often; nonstop
dozing off in the middle of doing something (esp. in an online chat or during an online game); becoming inactive due to falling asleep
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt
appreciation of the yen; strong yen; strengthening of the yen; high-valued yen; exchange in favor of the yen (favour)
greeting; a fine thing to say
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
you're lying; yeah, right; liar; fibber
suffering from summer heat; summer heat fatigue