to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
dear (old); fondly remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
come (on); come now; all right; right; well; hmm
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
postscript; post scriptum; PS; P.S.
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
maidservant; housemaid; hostess (in a ryokan); waitress (in a traditional restaurant); (arch.) court lady; (arch.) lady
scene; spectacle; sight; view
with all one's strength; with might and main; as hard as one can
across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for
furious facial expression
serious; not joking; straight; (arch.) cannot; (arch.) should not; (arch.) will not
10th day of the month; ten days
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
pie in the sky; castles in the air; (lit.) drawing of a rice cake
armchair theory; impracticable plan; unworkable idea
to put into effect; to put into practice
strangely; oddly; miraculously; mysteriously
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve; to transfer (phone call)
standing firm; holding out
focus; focal point; focus (of attention, a discussion, etc.); point at issue; focus
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
to give the stamp of approval
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
spirit; mind; nature; disposition; intention; mind; mood
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
flexibility; pliability; softness; elasticity
information; news; information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.); informatics (as a subject)
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
memory; recollection; remembrance; memory; storage