curl; curly hair; ringlet
person with low tastes; uncultured person; worldly person; ordinary person (who has not entered the priesthood); layperson; layman
beating someone up by ganging up on them; facing a barrage of criticism
to complain; to make a complaint
to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn
to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return
cry (of an animal); call; chirp; song; caw; roar
(financial) settlement; squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
performance (as opposed to practice); going before an audience or on-air; game; match; high of the season; height (of summer, etc.)
big mouth; mouth opened wide; boastful speech; tall talk; large amount; large quantity
here and there; everywhere
treasury; treasure house; storehouse; treasure trove; rich source (of)
to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin
standardization; standardisation; normalization (e.g. in maths)
ground beetle; carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae); Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)
to dig up; to dig out; to pick (nose, teeth, etc.); to pry into; to examine closely; to dredge up
nasal discharge; nasal mucus; snot; booger; bogey
to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of
swallowing in one gulp; downing; sipping; sip; thinking nothing of one's opponent; making easy prey of someone
to throw into; to dump in together
to compose; to put together
lower half of the body; nether parts
curiosity; inquisitiveness
floating; buoyancy; fishing float; bobber; buoy; lifebuoy
to turn pale; to lose color; to lose colour
to mishear; to hear wrongly; to misunderstand
(place) right in the center; dead center; dead centre; exact middle; heart
to carry in one's hand; to have in one's hand; to lead (e.g. troops); to present (an issue, policy, artistic work, etc.); to take up
hasty; impatient; restless; rash
shape; form; appearance; style; state; situation
I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
block (of wood); chip; splinter
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan
visit; call; arrival (e.g. of spring); advent; news; tidings
diagonally; obliquely; slantingly; slantwise