habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
sense of isolation; (feelings of) loneliness
parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
intention; idea; inclination; wish
elementary, junior high and high school
school centred on preparing students to get into university; high-level school a person has entered
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
after all; in the end; conclusion; end; end of a game of go, shogi, etc.
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
results; record; grades; marks
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
to be found; to be discovered
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to trust; to relax one's guard (around)
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
book; volume; this; present; main; head
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy
here and there; in places
trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence
to desire; to wish for; to expect; to see; to command (a view of)
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to become desperate; to give in to despair
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
long ago; already; a long time ago
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
to subsist; to keep on living