puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
what's what; heads or tails
name of a piece of music; (musical) number; (musical) program; programme; selection (of music)
Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends
Clap; Clapp; Klapp; Krapp; Crapp
lyric sheet; card with the lyrics to a song
not permitting; not authorizing
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
half out of interest; mostly out of curiosity
strained lees (e.g. sake, tofu); draff
central; main; just (done); freshly (baked); counter for consecutive losses
handrail; railing; banister
coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator
unsophisticated; ruggedly honest; artless; unaffected; simple; naive
pair; two kinds; two ways
family; relatives; dependents; household
with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
noncommittal; equivocal; indecisive; evasive; ambiguous; vague
to grow wild; to run to waste; to become rough (of art, craft, etc.); to lose refinement; to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.); to become more severe
top-heavy; big-headed; overly-theoretical
limestone cave; limestone cavern
high-pitched tone; soprano
evasion; excuse; subterfuge; runaround
to sit upright; to sit up straight; to take a defiant attitude; to become aggressive; to take the offensive
Nephila clavata (an Oriental species of golden orb-weaving spider); Argiope amoena (an Oriental species of orb-weaving spider); wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi)
joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party
feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
musical note; note symbol; phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.); part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning)
musical composition title; song title
audience; spectator; spectators
centre of explosion; center of explosion; hypocentre; hypocenter; ground zero
rough; casual (clothing); rough (of a golf course); rough sketch; rough draft