fraction; odd amount; leftover amount
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse
to stick (to); to cling (to); to adhere (to); to stay (in a place); to stick close (to someone); to follow (someone) around
answering machine; answerphone
(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life
lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; life line (in palm reading)
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
pretending to know; claiming to have an answer
as you can imagine; as imagined
fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste); fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)
utensil; appliance; furniture
to look at; to gaze; to stare at
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
parent-child relationship
to hold one's breath; to catch one's breath
café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)
accomplice; conspirator; cohort
abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking; prohibition of smoking; No Smoking; Smoking Prohibited
gambling den; gambling house
futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate
cheese on toast; toasted cheese
halfsies; splitting evenly between two people
illness; condition; -pathy
temporomandibular joint disorder; temporomandibular joint dysfunction; TMD; TMJ
to raise one's voice; to shout
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to jostle; to crowd; to haggle
to assume an aspect; to take on an appearance
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
to push down; to knock down
to discard; to abandon; to neglect; to let be
to half-rise to one's feet
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
to nod one's head; to nod yes; to agree
tsumugi; pongee; traditional rough-surfaced cloth woven from raw silk
root; source; origin; cause
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time