twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out
to tuck up (e.g. skirt); to abridge; to cut short
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
ancient character (esp. Chinese); ancient writing
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up
irritating; troublesome; gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; heavy (weather); cloudy
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
classic (work, esp. book); the classics
rote memorization (memorisation); rote learning; indiscriminate memorizing (memorising)
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
elimination; erasure; clearing; elimination (of variables)
signature move (assoc. with a martial artist, wrestler, etc.); finishing move
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia
modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)
to transcribe; to duplicate; to describe; to film; to picture
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose
to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
decision; settlement; definition
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
technical book; specialized book; treatise
prudish; strait-laced; boring; square
textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
very much; very many; more and more
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to