mochi; (sticky) rice cake
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
school festival; campus festival
thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
suddenly; in a flash; rapidly; attractive; distinguished; showy
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
desk pad; sheet of plastic (or cardboard, felt, etc.) placed under writing paper; being pinned under; being caught under; model; pattern
writing (e.g. as a profession)
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
progress; being under way
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
number of days; period of days; daily interest rate
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
story; tale; legend; plot; storyline
rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded
after the end (of something); post-
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to come to mind; to pop into one's head
that is to say; so that means
contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); submission; post (on a blog, social media, etc.)
to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
opinion; point of view; visual point
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)