casual players; casual crowd; people in it for fun
one-eyed; first (in a series); initial
reader; (website) visitor
being a good listener; good listener
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide
vomit; spew; confessing; extremely; really
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
drinking bout; merrymaking
to wake (someone) up (roughly); to rouse out of bed; to awaken (someone) by knocking at the door
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
scholar; academic; scientist; learned person; person of learning
divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment
something-something; yada yada; so-and-so
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
mouse (esp. a laboratory mouse); (computer) mouse; mouth
abnormal behavior (behaviour)
approval; adoption (of a motion, bill, etc.); passage
death march; death march (in software development); crunch
samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; prone to; apt to
(one's) wife; (someone's) wife; landlady
drunken sickness; getting sick from drinking; drunken frenzy; becoming violent or disorderly when drunk
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
increasing the number of staff; hiring more people
final stage; final stretch; live printing area (in publishing); gallery (in a theatre); driving (animals, fish, etc.); herding
Lolita (fashion style); young girl; childlike young woman
not counted (in the score); not tallied
mysterious fish; strange fish
tarantula (common name for large spiders); European wolf spider (Lycosa tarentula)
aquatic products; fisheries
blank column; blank space
(of a woman) strong-minded; spirited; mannish
to check through; to thoroughly investigate