junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
first-year student; first-year pupil; beginner; novice; annual; annual plant
to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
instability; insecurity; crankiness
change of voice (during puberty); break of voice
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
to receive; to get; to accept; to take (someone's words or behaviour); to interpret; to understand
to stiffen; to become stiff; to harden
to take (something) along; to bring with one; to carry (something) away; to bear
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright
lethargy; despondency; mental numbness; (physical) collapse; prostration
(dragging a large or heavy item) slowly; (falling) little by little; (slipping) gradually; on and on; while putting off; with a slurp
mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
one's only good clothes (suit, dress, etc.); one's only suit of clothes; one's best clothes; one's Sunday best
usurpation; taking back; dispossession
jujube (Ziziphus jujuba); Chinese date; red date; small tea caddy (tea ceremony)
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable; indefinable; nobody can tell
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
Mr; master; Ms; miss; (arch.) sir; (arch.) madam
to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in
beautiful boy; pretty boy; handsome boy
time; season; period; phase; stage
to manifest itself; to manifest oneself
androgynous; gender-neutral
even if; even though; even; too; whether ... or ...; no matter (what, where, who, etc.)
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
old-fashioned; ancient-looking; time-worn
to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that
build; physique; frame; constitution
difficult to understand; difficult to grasp; confusing; puzzling
backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind
contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features