straight; straightforward; direct; neat (e.g. spirits); black (e.g. tea, coffee); entering university directly from high school; fast ball
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the expensive side; comparatively expensive; wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score
bait pitch; sucker pitch; pitch that lures a batter to swing
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous
going the whole distance; pitching a whole game
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
right on; dead on; fitting to a T; on the button; perfectly correct
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
construction; framework; erection; assembly; organization; organisation
loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft
to narrow in (on); to home in; to focus; to target
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
danger; peril; hazard; risk
to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up
reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
to bite at; to snap at; to nibble; to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into
to recall; to remember; to recollect
Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
being absorbed in; losing oneself in; losing control of oneself
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
stands; bleachers; stand (e.g. newspaper stand); counter (e.g. lunch counter); stand (e.g. inkstand); desk lamp
to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
last; final; end; conclusion; rust
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")