dark; dull; unsatisfactory; dissatisfying; unattractive; unappealing
loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief
sharp (blade, image, mind, etc.); sharp; number sign; hash sign; mechanical pencil
just one person; only one
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
short temper; quick temper; hot temper; impatience; irritability
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
busyness; a lot of things to do; frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses
to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit-in (in protest)
to place persons opposite; to come face to face with; to compare (with); to check (against); to match
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
coward; sissy; weakling; loser; milquetoast; good-for-nothing
love hotel; short-stay hotel used primarily for sexual activities
somehow; in some way; for some reason; faintly; vaguely
from the beginning; from scratch
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
explosion; rupture; break off
to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to overdo; to do too much
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
wooden spoon; ladle; rice scoop
vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump
to cancel; to withdraw; to retract; to take back (words, etc.); to revoke
to swoop down upon; to fly down; to alight
trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
acceleration; speeding up
cranial nerves; cerebral nerves
(arch.) charmed and cursed; something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons