student guidance; student counseling
enthusiastic schoolteacher; passionate teacher
to fold one's arms; to link arms with someone
rejoicing; glorification; exultation; celebration; enjoyment; singing praises
to start; to begin; to commence
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
precarious situation; precarious state
collar; lapel; neckband; nape of the neck; scruff of the neck
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
entering the rainy season; beginning of the rainy season
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
to blow through; to blow across
fresh verdure; new green leaves
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
fine weather; fair weather
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
to draw in (one's body); to duck (one's head)
first person to say something; first person to suggest something
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)
main guest; guest of honor; guest of honour
to try and draw someone out; to fish for information; (for a shrine maiden) to present water to spirits while invoking them; to offer water before a grave
with gusto; with wild abandon; enthusiastically; energetically
exorbitant; outrageous; ridiculous; absurd; excessive; inordinate
surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard
(not) merely; (not) simply
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
hindrance; obstacle; harm; bad effect; sickness
romantic; spicy; coquettish
(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely
butter from cow's milk; storax (resin); styrax; toad venom
juice; soft drink (usu. fruit-based); sweetened drink
confused; disordered; faltered; incoherent; inconsistent
explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)