sickroom; hospital room; ward
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
different (quality, nature); heterogeneous
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
diamond dust; ice crystals
transportation access; access to (public) transportation; convenience of access (by road or rail); transport links
opening ceremony (of the school term)
kindergarten (in Japan, non-compulsory education from age 3 until primary school); preschool
leaving hospital; discharge from hospital
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
about; concerning; related to; -ish
making doubly sure; points scored for good measure; insurance run (in baseball)
one-way (trip); one-way ticket
to get flustered; to get flurried; to get agitated; to become impatient; to hurry
haste; hurry; urgency; in a hurry; quickly; with haste
several times; a few times
odds and ends; all; every
advice; counsel; suggestion; tip; hint
to bear responsibility for; to be liable for; to answer for; to take the blame for
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion
favorite (to win); favourite; one's heart's desire; first choice; chocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment
severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair
to run; to dash; to gallop (on horseback); to canter; (arch.) to advance (against one's enemy); (arch.) to charge (on horseback)
going back to sleep; sleeping in
work, items, etc. carried over from earlier; hangover; what you ate the day before (and is still being digested)
in a train (car, bus, etc.); on a train
feeling of relief (for the time being); peace of mind (for now)
spot; point; place; position
transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover
decoration; ornament; trimmings
Alice band; (horseshoe-shaped) headband (worn over the forehead); hairband
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to connect (with a different flight, train, etc.); to make a connection; to change (planes, trains, etc.)
conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "iru"