to put on airs; to assume importance; to be self-important; to be pretentious; to be pompous; to stand on one's dignity
guest spending the night (i.e. at a hotel)
Japanese dock (Rumex japonicus)
creak; squeak; creaking; discord; strife; friction
to bud; to sprout; to arise; to begin to grow
Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
nursing; nurse; attending; attendant; entertainer
talk; recital; narration; topic
mystical power inherent in words; spirit of language
afterlife; realm of the dead
this world; the present world
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
suppressed laugh; smile; giggle; chuckle
remembering; recollection; anamnesis; recall (memory); retrieval
test of courage (by going to a frightening place, e.g. a graveyard)
home area; home town; local
someone with a liking or characteristic; a true representative of (place)
he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; discretion is the better part of valor; (lit.) fleeing is winning
having said that; be that as it may
ridge (of roof); back of a sword; counter for buildings, apartments, etc.
connection; linking; joining; coupling; attaching; junction
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long
shellfish; seashell; shell
stew (esp. Japanese cream stew)
summons; subpoena; citation; summoning (a spirit, demon, etc.); evocation; invocation
ghost story; tale of the supernatural
to outwit; to get the better of; to leave (an opponent) dumbfounded; (lit.) to expose (someone's) nose
clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")
bloodstained; bloody; covered with blood
to lie down; to throw oneself down
abruptly (rising); slowly (rising)