acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
impassioned speech; fervent speech
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
bad-mouthing someone so as to be deliberately overheard; intentionally letting someone hear insults or sarcasm regarding them
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
(with a) start; fright; alarm
to stiffen; to become stiff
to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route
single word; a few words; brief comment
to push away; to thrust aside; to detach oneself from; to keep away from; to act coldly; to do without emotion
originally; by nature; from the start
deadline; closing; cofferdam; closed (door, window, etc.)
extension; elongation; prolongation; Enchō era (923.4.11-931.4.26)
third day of the month; three days
to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
to lead; to take the initiative; to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger); to be most essential
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
deep inside; innermost place
lightly; gaping wide; suddenly; unexpectedly
low table; table with very short legs