to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up
foolish thing; stupid thing; absurdity
good-naturedness; good-natured person; credulous person; easy mark
falsehood and truth; fiction and fact
to affect; to impact; to influence
reading through; reading over
fairness; impartiality; justice; objectivity
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
splash pattern (e.g. on a kimono); dye pattern; kasuri
grazing; touching lightly; squeezing (someone for money); percentage; kickback
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
contrary to one's expectations; to one's surprise
twenty-fifth day of the month; twenty-five days
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
consistent; unchanging from beginning to end
form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional); type; typeface; font
to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint
article (in document); provision; stripe; streak; although; though
addition; increase; Canada
memorization; memorisation; learning by heart
lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
sen (hundredth of a yen); coin made of non-precious materials; one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency); (arch.) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
tempura donburi; tempura served over a bowl of rice; (in comedy) repeating the same gag or silly line
great rival; powerful enemy; archenemy
place near the mountains; hilly section of a city (e.g. Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama)
intent to kill; intent to murder; urge to kill; murderous impulse
erratic; offbeat; wild; extraordinary
infancy; childish; infantile; immature
to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
evening; dusk; evening scene; evening landscape; light of the setting sun
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)