to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
shot; charge; blow; punch; home run; try
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
modern Japanese; current written style
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed
writing; composition; essay; sentence
something like ...; something called ...
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
to one's regret; regrettably; unfortunately; what can be done about ...; ... cannot be helped
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
the body is honest; your body reveals what you really think (or want)
dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
regrettable; disappointing; precious; dear; too good for; deserving better
saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot
way to use something; treatment; management (of help)
very; much; greatly; a lot of
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud