small point; knob; protuberance; aloneness; loneliness; solitude
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
admirable; commendable; praiseworthy; laudable; brave; heroic
foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury
ladies' (fashion, etc.); female bōsōzoku gang
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
isolation; being alone; being friendless
rationalization; rationalisation; rationalize; rationalise
bento; Japanese box lunch
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
stairs; stairway; staircase
dance hall; dance floor; landing (stairs); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation
to bring (somebody into a place); to lead into
falling into a doze; dozing off; nodding off
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; lecture
physical education; PE; gym (class)
(within) the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
bloomers; (girls') gym shorts
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
next year; next fiscal year
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
first year of high school; first-year high school student
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
cool; stylish; good-looking; fashionable; sexy
straight-cut bangs (hairstyle)
particularly; especially; indicates the number of horses or oxen drawing a carriage; indicates the number of oars on a boat; indicates the number of movies, plays, etc. comprising a single program; indicates the number of items or methods used
to wear glasses; to put on glasses
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to resound; to make a stir
inflecting dependent word (in Japanese); bound auxiliary; auxiliary verb (in languages other than Japanese)
to misread; to misinterpret; to misunderstand