impact (on); (strong) impression; effect; impact (of a ball against a racket, bat, club, etc.)
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people
curiosity; inquisitiveness
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
schoolyard; school playground; school grounds; campus
(walk) briskly; at a brisk pace; quickly
shrieking; squealing; screeching; chattering (e.g. of a monkey); chittering
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
running fast; double time; cantering; doing things in a hurry
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
street at night; making a night journey
evening; evening (of a special event); last night; yesterday evening
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to stoop; to bend (e.g. one's knees)
one eye; one of one's eyes; being blind in one eye; person who is blind in one eye
to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down
ordinary clothes (i.e. non-uniform); plain clothes; civilian clothes; plainclothes police officer
school badge; school emblem; school insignia
unhappy; sad; miserable; wretched; gloomy; melancholic
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
middle of the night; dead of night
salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse
look!; there!; here!; that is
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
Guri and Gura (children's book series)
noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe
displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment
to thrust into; to shove into; to push into; to drive into
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
feeling sick; feeling queasy; feeling nauseated; being angry; being offended; being disgusted
to be lifted up (with a crane, ropes, etc.); to be raised; to be hoisted; to turn upward (esp. of eyes); to slant upward
carnivore; carnivorous animal
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on
body and soul; mind and body