to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)
disappointment; despair; despondency; broken heart; adversity
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
astounding; tremendous; crazy; exorbitant
talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk
feeling chilly; nervous; anxious; frightened
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
to point upward; to look upward; to improve
conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover
distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin
to scurry home; to run home; to fly back
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
to lay waste; to devastate; to invade; to break into; to troll (e.g. web forums); to spam
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
one's social position; one's place; one's standing
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
error of judgment; miscalculation
trusting too much; overestimating ability
moment to quit; way to quit
to mistake someone for someone else; to misread; to misjudge
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
excessive self-consciousness; excessively self-conscious person
to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
to put to use; to make good use of; to exploit
difference in elevation (between two points in a body of water); head; drop (e.g. of a waterfall); difference; gap
to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning
to be discouraged; to be disheartened
to that extent; to that degree; so much; so
to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence
expedient; means; instrument; upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching)