diligent; hardworking; healthy; well; faithful; honest
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
waste meat; meat scraps; offal
cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
fried egg; sunny-side up fried egg
eggs; egg; (hen's) egg; a ... in the making; future (lawyer, doctor, etc.); beginning
to mellow (e.g. personality); to be rounded; to huddle; to cower
coming; going; being (somewhere); (please) come; go; stay
unprincipled; inconstant; unscrupulous
personification; anthropomorphization
(distant) future; future existence; world beyond the grave; future (tense)
to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on
genius; prodigy; natural gift
selection; sorting; culling; screening; triage
one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends
separation (e.g. of rubbish when recycling); classification; discrimination; division; distinction
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
failing to receive an order; losing a sales opportunity; closed lost
first thing after rising; as soon as getting up
play; playing; game; play and dance (at a kindergarten or elementary school)
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic
to rock; to shake; to swing
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
simply; merely; only; solely
to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against someone; to play (a game, match, etc.) against someone
hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology
vigilantly (watching for an opportunity); eagerly; with an eagle eye
kitchen knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
to put in order; to tidy up; to settle (a matter); to solve; to finish; to get through