sweet voice; seductive voice
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
assistant professor; associate professor
café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)
haste; hurry; expedition; speed; dispatch
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
materials; data; document
to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
due form; official; formality
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
to press a question; to cross-examine
good prospects; full of hope; promising
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
delay; lag; postponement; falling behind
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
to be crushed; to be smashed; to become useless; to cease functioning; to go bankrupt; to go out of business
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
umbrella; parasol; something shaped like an umbrella or a conical hat; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap
soaked; drenched; sopping; incessantly (raining); drizzling
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
slot machine in a pachinko parlor (parlour)