three sides; three faces; page three (of a newspaper)
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
exhilarating; thrilling; intensely pleasurable
article; news story; report; account
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
last night; yesterday evening
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
university student; college student
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
examination; exam; test; trial; experiment; test
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
shoulder roast (e.g. of lamb)
even if I say so myself; for me (to do such a thing)
in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); entirely; completely
seeking the bizarre (abnormal, grotesque, etc.)
evening; last night; yesterday evening
person with supernatural power; person capable of extrasensory perception
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
to abbreviate; to omit; to take; to capture
to feel giddy; to totter; to be unfixed (emotions, beliefs, etc.); to waver; to wander aimlessly; to loiter
here and there; in places
three-line classified advertisement
shoe store; shoe shop; shoemaker
continuation; succession; series
bizarre murder; grotesque murder
to push aside; to brush aside
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
related article; related story
to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious
to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)
dragon (as depicted in Western myths)
now that; since; so long as; because
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such