real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of
an honest man; a good citizen
correction; revision; rectification
normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
aloof; morose; stuck-up; smelling strongly of something; having a pungent smell
splendid; nice; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); well enough; OK
New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
close friend; bosom friend; buddy; crony; chum
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
accountability; being held accountable
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
strength; power; proficiency; ability
exclusion of males; (being) closed to men
special lecturer; guest lecturer
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
first year of junior high school; first-year junior high school student
hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)
look!; there!; here!; that is
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
executive secretary; coordinator; organizer; person in charge of making arrangements
cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)
perfect; complete; flawless
clear weather; fine weather; formal; ceremonial; cleared of suspicion
lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger
person of firm character; stable person; gutsy person