confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism); striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
sharp (blade); pointed; sharp (pain); stabbing; perceptive; keen
desirable; hoped for; preferable; advisable
ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
cannot help (doing); have no choice but to; am compelled to; am obliged to; it is incumbent upon (me) to
honorific added to names of makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
both; both sides; both parties
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
defile; narrow path; bottleneck; impasse
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
passing (e.g. of a typhoon); going past
surplus-; excess-; over-; per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
bow-wow; woof; wah-wah; bawling; clamouring; clamoring
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to
pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
piece; slice; cloth; sharpness; agility; counter for scraps, pieces, etc.
it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...
(in the) presence (of); in front (of); before (someone)
scraps; cut end; cut-off piece
exactly right!; indeed; damn straight
focus of one's attention; what one is looking for; viewpoint; point one is trying to make
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...