prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong
window screen; insect screen; mosquito screen; screen; screen door
to put effort into; to strain; to put strength into; to put forth effort
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
every other; second; alternate
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
smelling of mold; musty; putrid; old-fashioned; stale; hackneyed
round shape; circle; circular form
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
atrium; well (in building); blow-by; blow-bye; drafty; draughty
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
major earthquake; large earthquake
to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (contents); to tell everything; to reveal everything; to open one's heart
very messy; (stuff) all over the place; (lit.) no space even for one's feet
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
orderliness; put in order; tidying up; arranging neatly
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
local site; location for making or filming a movie
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
light; right; right field; right fielder
failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
the ancients; ancient people
moai; Okinawan-style social support group
extensive; spacious; vague; hazy
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
ding (of a bell); bing; honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort; heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave
outside world; physical world
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper
to turn yellow; to become tinged with yellow; to yellow (with age)
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch