kitchen; financial situation
pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
(not) merely; (not) simply
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms
anything and everything; just about everything
to complete decisively; to do to completion
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
to lose strength; to become weak; to wither; to droop; to feel demotivated; to lose interest
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
reply (e.g. email, fax, letter); answer
to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be sprained; to be snapped; to be broken
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
elastic band; rubber band
to lose heart; to be discouraged; to be exhausted; to be tired out
desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
to look on enviously while doing nothing; (lit.) to hold a finger in one's mouth
to be enraged; to flip out
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
everyone at once; everyone together
alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume; different name; other name
pachinko; mechanical gambling game superficially resembling pinball; slingshot; catapult; pistol
both ends; either end; both edges; double-mindedness; sitting on the fence
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
jingling; jangling; clinking; lasciviously; coquettishly
cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
video (esp. digital); video clip; animation; animated cartoon; in-betweens (animation)
looking and listening; (television) viewing; watching; (public) attention; interest
flood plain; river terrace; riverside area; area between river and river bank
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable); forward puller (of a rickshaw)
low (level, value, price, etc.)