needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather; (not) easily
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
large pink (Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
China pink (species of flower, Dianthus chinensis)
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
Tathagata; perfected one (suffix of high-ranking Buddhist deities)
an inch ahead; the immediate future
honorific/polite/humble prefix
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
to stumble (over); to trip; to fail; to suffer a setback
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
thin; slender; fine; unlucky
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
gadid (any fish of the family Gadidae, incl. cod, haddock, whiting and pollack); Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)
life; living; I; me; student
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish
unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
writing; composition; essay; sentence
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
utterance; speaking; vocalization; leading a group of people (in cheering, singing, etc.)
articulation; speaking one's lines smoothly; reciting one's lines well
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout