to burn; to kindle; to heat (a bath); to light (a stove); to use (a camera flash)
spinning top (traditionally made of Japanese Babylon shell)
toddling; with small, quick steps; restlessly; in continuous motion; quickly and easily; often
water pistol; squirt gun; water gun
to be itching to put one's skills to use
to make progress; to develop; to evolve (method, style, etc.)
form; situation; condition
sudden turn; sudden change; (suddenly occurring) accident; emergency
corridor; hallway; passageway
principle; aim; purport; gist; instructions; orders
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
blood (in one's face, cheeks, etc.); colour; color; hot-bloodedness; hotheadedness; impulsive temperament
feeling keenly; fully realizing
state of emergency; emergency; crisis
being argued into silence; being left speechless
ramming attack; hurling oneself (at); throwing oneself into (e.g. a role); going all out
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness
to relax one's efforts; to let up; to let one's guard down
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
to be transparent; to show through
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue
field of flowers; flower garden; field of alpine flowers; fantasy; delusion
mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity
SM; S&M; sado-masochism; shopping mall
to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to
other people's affairs; someone else's problem
calmness; composure; presence of mind; stability; steadiness
Japanese dock (Rumex japonicus)
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold
to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life
to think up; to think out; to knit (a pattern into a sweater, etc.); to start knitting
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
contrary to one's expectations
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
head of a garden; kindergarten principal; nursery school principal; park director; zoo director; head of a plantation
therapeutic agent; remedy; medicine; drug; cure
to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be hasty; to be rash; to quicken; to speed up
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)