one line; one stretch (e.g. of road); earnest; resolute; (arch.) one bloodline; (arch.) one clan
slovenly (appearance, work, etc.); sloppy; untidy; weak; feeble; weak-willed
to insert; to include; to incorporate; to install; to embed
antiquity; the previous era
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
count; counting; count of balls and strikes; count (after a knock-down); count (of radioactivity)
habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now
to wail; to bawl; to cry loudly; to shout (while crying)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (comedy by William Shakespeare)
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind; mean; nasty
to charm; to attract; to fascinate; to entice
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
alright to do; can do; do not mind doing; gladly do; might as well do
agreement; affirmative; aye; yes; OK
disapproval; disagreement; no; the noes; not ...; dis-
freshly pounded (rice cake); fresh from the mortar
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
bouncily; with a stretch; with a boing
springy (texture); doughy; elastic
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
to make merry; to frolic; to be in high spirits
to get up (from sitting); to stand up; to (finally) start to do something; to get off one's backside; to take action
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
excelling; surpassing; outdoing
to mix; to blend; to combine
finish; completion; the end
one's (own) house; one's (own) home
city bus; municipal bus service
to incline toward; to slant; to go down (sun, moon); to sink; to decline; to wane
day by day; every day; by the day
if you think about it; come to think of it
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
to be nearing death; to be dying
second year of high school; second-year high-school student
sentiment; sentimentality
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)