to check someone's temperature
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
regularization; regularisation; getting up speed; proceeding at full tilt
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
to work hard; to work diligently; to do one's best; to try one's hardest
to dust; to remove dust; to slap; to hit (with the palm); to use up money
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly
head; dome; bean; nob; noggin
to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone
square brackets; Japanese-style quotation marks
natural; intrinsic; from birth
within the story (of a book, play, film, etc.)
talk; dialogue; conversation
cold storage; deep freeze; cryopreservation
surface of the earth; ground surface
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
Mount Fuji; Mt. Fuji; Fujiyama; Fuji-san
eruption; volcanic eruption
elimination (of a person, group, etc.); killing off; denial (of an opinion, fact, etc.); ignoring; erasure (of writing); rubbing out
copyright; publishing rights
1,000,000,000,000; one trillion; 10^12
proving ground; test site
counter for waves (of a repeated occurrence)
monjayaki; dish of pan-fried batter with various fillings
parallel universe; alternative reality; parallel world
to repent; to regret; to be sorry; to rue
to balance the accounts; to make consistent; to make coherent
here and there; this way and that way; everywhere; all over
jumping out; running out (e.g. into the street); dashing out; springing out
collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash
grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely
regular; ordinary (e.g. session of parliament); established usage; precedent; regular practice