wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!
finished product; finished goods; completed article
a cut above the rest; superior; one field; one matter; suitably; reasonably
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation
antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
mass of rock; rock lump; block
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
all sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions; large hanging lantern
to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip
to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome
to rinse; to wash out; to have one's revenge; to wipe out a disgrace
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
common knowledge; well-known fact
kitchen knife; carving knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
single edge (e.g. sword blade)
emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect
two places; two spots; two locations; two parts; two passages
return to base (of soldiers, military aircraft or ships)
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.); crunchy; grumpily; touchily; scratching
to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to loosen up (e.g. tension)
reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); lingering memory; aftertaste; suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)
strongish; somewhat strong
suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently
teatime; tea break; coffee break
boisterously; roughly; briskly
to choke; to be choked by; to be stifled by
way of eating; how to eat
topic of discussion; agenda