lavish feast; splendid banquet; corporate largess; lavish hospitality
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
brave woman; heroine; lady of character; Amazon
to show up; to appear; to turn up
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
very popular; highly favoured
modus operandi; criminal technique; trick
event; festivities; function; social gathering; auspices; opening
polite language (e.g. masu, desu)
to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite
to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply
arrogant; haughty; insolent
infancy; childhood; tender age
moderate; reserved; conservative; humble; mild-mannered; self-effacing
zeal; enthusiasm; ardor; ardour
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
to have an uneasy conscience
no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; (lit.) fire on the opposite shore
to put oneself in (situation, environment, etc.); to surround oneself with
with this I (formal); by this I (formal)
pledge; vow; (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse; destiny; fate
superficial; half-hearted; shallow
gambling den; gambling house
to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink
to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
both; together; jointly; simultaneously
to be given the cold shoulder; to be jilted; to be rejected; to be dumped
drowning one's cares in drink; drinking in desperation
gulping down (a drink); guzzling; chugging; sloshing around (of liquid in one's stomach)
to give shelter to; to lodge; to put up; to accommodate
noisy; loud; boisterous; turbulent; unsettled; restless
to compete (with each other); to contend for; to vie for; to rival
childish; child-like; immature; infantile
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
your (visual) observation
third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
weird; disgusting; sickening
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts