to manage; to control; to cut carelessly (of a cook, surgeon, etc.); to slash about; (arch.) to cut around
to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat
cornered animal; (lit.) cornered rat
to torment; to harass; to tease
work (e.g. of art); production; harvest; cultivation; technique
tedious; verbose; wordy; redundancy
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
extinguishing a fire; (Edo-period) fireman
eyes; expression of the eyes; area around the eyes; skin round one's eyes
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
to be coming; to be popular; to be fashionable; to be angry; to have blown one's lid
whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches
definite; final; decisive; conclusive
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)
seriously; in earnest; for real; all out; really; with a will
to get someone to say; to make someone say; to let someone say; to let someone speak out; to make a sound
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
to hate each other; to hate mutually
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)
keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills
leakage; omission; oversight; I; me
to run off; to break into a run; to start running
loud laughter; roaring with laughter
Japanese spindletree (Euonymus japonicus)
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
fetus; foetus; embryo; unborn child
to be born; to come into the world
womb; uterus; parent body; base; basis
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
revolution; rotation; turning; turning (an aircraft or ship)