dry riverbed; river beach
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
unkindness; unfriendliness
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
heart; guts; nerve; heart (of something); central part
to be amazed; to be shocked; to be astonished; to be astounded; to be disgusted; to be exasperated
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial
play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack
amusement; entertainment; recreation; pleasure; pastime; hobby
though; although; notwithstanding; while; as; at the same time as
erratic; offbeat; wild; unconventional; extraordinary; weird
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you
such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
to pick up; to gather; to find (and pick up; something someone has dropped); to select; to choose; to get (unexpectedly); to hit upon (luck, an opportunity, etc.)
(a person's) appearance; looks
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)
round; circular; curved; smooth; harmonious; calm
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy
moustache; mustache; whiskers (on a cat, etc.); feelers (on an insect, etc.); shadow (on a candlestick chart)
block (solid piece of material); chunk (e.g. of meat); concrete block; (interlocking) toy blocks; (printing) block; block (area of a city); blocking (e.g. the way)
to pick up; to pick out (e.g. key points in an article); to single out; to point out
to shine; to glitter; to be bright
aluminum foil; aluminium foil; tinfoil; silver-colored paper
diffuse reflection; diffused reflection; irregular reflection
sunlight; rays of the Sun
emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
to be transparent; to show through
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)
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
presence; dignity; corpulence; obesity
to take (something) along; to bring with one; to carry (something) away; to bear
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to be silent; to say nothing
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
reaction; response; physical reaction (to a stimulus); observable response (of an organism); reaction; effect
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago