crops; agricultural produce
recreation; diversion; relaxation
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
minute adjustment; fine-tuning
complete recovery of health
(after) bouncing around from one place to the next
fierce look; frightening look; tough look; aggressive attitude; coercive attitude; taking a hard line
to choose (something) at one's discretion; to use one's discretion in choosing
making (something) widely known; announcement; unveiling
ruby; ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material); Ruby (programming language)
special selection; finest pick; top pick
thickly; heavily; profusely; (complain) endlessly; excessively; tediously
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
accent (on a syllable, word); stress; intonation; inflection; (language) accent (e.g. American, British); accent (e.g. in a design)
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)
colouring; coloring; shade (of colour); flavour; nuance; feel
top of the head; crown of the head; vertex; (the) parietal
temporal region; regio temporalis (capitis)
pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; feeling hesitant; feeling nervous; feeling diffident
to distinguish oneself; to stand out
courtesy call; going around to say hello (or goodbye) to everybody; making the rounds
soft; weak; fragile; poorly built; insubstantial
learning by watching others; learning by imitation; following by example
shrewd; astute; cunning; alert
dress; outfit; equipment; makeup; adornment; guise
wasted effort; fruitless effort; vain efforts
(short) rest; breather; break
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
counterattack; slashing back; railway switchback; twisting backward knee trip
shopkeeper; storekeeper; proprietor of a shop
will not do; do not; does not
I don't want to boast but