bottle; jar; decanter; flagon; phial; vial
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
atonement (for one's sins); expiation; making amends; making up for (a misdeed)
technical term; terminology; jargon
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
accidentally; in error; by mistake; by accident
to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch
cutting edge; leading edge; forefront; tip; end
self-education; self-instruction; self-study
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name
to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...
armband; arm band; brassard
between the pages of a book; between two books
to tie; to restrain; to confine; to bind; to fasten
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
to keep a promise; to keep one's word
strong smell of grass (esp. in summer heat)
disorder; chaos; confusion
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
intruder; invader; trespasser; raider
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
sitting together in a circle; happy circle; harmony
unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
yesterday and today; only recently; just recently; only yesterday
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)
forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money
9th day of the month; nine days
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
Moon; month; moonlight; (a) moon; natural satellite
substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday; compensatory day off work (for having worked on a holiday, etc.)
every year; yearly; annually
pardon me for leaving (first)