dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
light; faint; pale; fleeting
green (colour); green (energy, car, etc.); environmentally friendly; greenland; green space; green (on a golf course)
dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered
student in a higher grade; upperclassman
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; one cup after another; cup by cup
map (of the inside of a building, station, etc.)
middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
open access (in a library); open shelves
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
floor above; floor upstairs
as soon as...; just after...; immediately after...; hurriedly; in haste; quickly
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
don't feel like doing; can't bring oneself to do; can't face
combination; union; incorporation; congruence
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
addressing (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan" (considered impolite)
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
to look away; to avert one's eyes
sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning
a gap develops; a significant difference emerges
willingness (e.g. to do something); eagerness; motivation; inspiration; determination; high aspirations
true state; actual condition; reality
harmony; accord; reconciliation; agreement