to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve; to transfer (phone call)
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation
one chance; only opportunity
all together now!; one, two, go!; ready, set, go!; heave, ho!; oops-a-daisy
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
pardon me for leaving (first)
one (more) effort; one (more) push; a try; a go
to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to
desperation; struggle to the death
container; receptacle; case; inserting; putting in
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
end; close; conclusion; termination
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
to be excited; to be nervous; to be thrilled
excursion; field trip; school trip
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
don't you think?; indicates question
red; crimson; scarlet; Red; communist
home area; home town; local
citizen (of a country); citizenry; citizen (of a city); resident; bourgeoisie; middle class
confused; disordered; faltered; incoherent; inconsistent
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
company; friendship; association; (romantic) involvement; dating
just kidding; not!; ersatz; imitation; phony
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted