lively; energetic; vigorously (jumping, flopping, etc.); piercing (e.g. sound); penetrating
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
meaning; connotation; denotation
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
irritating; troublesome; gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; heavy (weather); cloudy
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
feather; plume; plumage; down
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
Scarborough Fair (ballad)
to weave in (a pattern, colour, material, etc.)
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
kill; kill (shot); smash; spike (in volleyball)
hidden command; cheat code
upper reaches (of a river); upper stream; top; upper part; long ago; beginning; first
end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all
to make (tea, coffee, etc.); to brew a beverage (with hot water)
(printed) instructions; manual; explanatory leaflet (pamphlet, note); description
someone with a liking or characteristic; a true representative of (place)
retro; nostalgic; old-fashioned
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
cute; adorable; charming; lovely; pretty
editor (in publishing, etc.)
fresh out of (college, high school, etc.); just out (e.g. of a book); first of the season (e.g. apples)
lack of policy; having no measures; lacking means
input; (data) entry; typing
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
noisily (running around); with heavy feet; in a fluster; in a flurry; slapstick
foundation (of a newspaper, magazine, etc.); starting; launching; first publication
weak and small; inferior in strength and size; minor; young; youthful
much-discussed work (book, film, etc.)
to sit at a desk (to study); to be at one's desk; to set to work on revision, homework, etc.
surgery; surgical procedure
with one's mouth wide open; gapingly
combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination