telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
stone; rock; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); (round) game piece
different opinion; objection
awamori; strong Okinawan liquor distilled from rice or millet
doctrine; rule; principle; -ism
ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; leaving a passing ball for a teammate (in soccer); letting the ball go past
sudden and unexpected; coming out of nowhere; out of the blue
out of character; unlike one
easy; easygoing; carefree; happy-go-lucky; optimistic; leisurely
to emphasize; to state emphatically; to speak loudly about; to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice
surely; certainly; without doubt
five characters; five letters; five-syllable verse of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.; first five syllables of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
both (people); the two of them
to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth
skipping out; cutting class; truancy; procrastination
shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
lazybones; good-for-nothing; idler; slacker; loafer
lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
Labor Thanksgiving Day (national holiday; November 23)
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
raising (a question); posing (a problem); instituting (a lawsuit); lodging; (arch.) lifting up
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
seedling; young plant; rice seedling
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
to bear fruit; to ripen; to produce (good) results; to show results; to bear fruit
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution
to be clear-headed; to be brainy
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
stone (of a fruit); pit; core (of an organization, team, etc.); nucleus; nuclear weapons; nucleus (of an atom); nucleus (of a cell)
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)