interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
irreligion; lack of religion; unbelief
fortune-telling; divination
race (of people); type of person
photography (still or motion); photographing; filming; shooting; (video) recording
to be lifted up; to be hung up; to twitch upwards; to turn upward; to slant upward
(power) transformer; trance; trans
in advance; beforehand; previously
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
to cough violently; to have a coughing fit
curse; spell; malediction
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
season (period in which regulated games are played); season (division of the year); season (of a TV show, etc.); season (for doing something, e.g. ski season, entrance examination season)
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
straw rope-patterned ancient Japanese pottery
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
excavation; exhumation; discovery (e.g. new talent)
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
earthenware; unglazed (bisque-fired) earthenware
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
by all means; at all costs; absolutely
to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
interest (in something); enthusiasm
oracle; revelation; divine message
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
New Wave (esp. in cinema)
unknown; unidentified; unspecified
un-Japanese in appearance or character
to walk heavily and clumsily; to lumber