one's (living) environment
expressing one's mind; speaking out
contact information (address, phone number, etc.)
dated; date; date of effect (e.g. a rule change); fixed; external
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power
dregs; lees; grounds; pent-up feelings
disqualification; elimination; incapacity; being unfit for one's role; being a failure
clue; lead; key; handhold; hold
soon; before long; in the near future
news (from someone); letter; contact; (someone's) whereabouts; (someone's) movements
to be anxious (about); to be concerned (about); to think out (e.g. a plan); to work out; to investigate
sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
(telephone) extension; additional telephone handset; portable handset; cordless telephone
at the very beginning of one's speech; immediately upon opening one's mouth (to speak); before anything else; first of all
heartbreak; grief; sorrow
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
to get lost; to become lost; to go astray
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
mountain stream; mountain torrent
to be knotty (of a tree, etc.); to be gnarled; to be rough and bony (hands, fingers, etc.); to be gnarled; to be knobby
hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.)
word; term; language; speech
(one) letter; (one) character
to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees
to resort to violence; to use force; to be able to get; to be able to afford; to jab; to swing at a bad ball (baseball)
feminine handwriting; woman's hand
to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked
to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (vegetables, treasure, etc.); to mine (coal, ore, etc.); to top
to tread down so as to harden (soil, snow, etc.)
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
funerary urn; cinerary urn; burial urn; cremation urn
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class
winding; meandering; zigzagging; zig-zag; in twists and turns; sinuously