near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides
baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player
yell (of encouragement); cheering (esp. for a school sports team)
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
use; utilization; utilisation; application
watching a (sports) game; spectating; observing (military operations)
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing
battle formation; lineup (e.g. for a game)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
match; game; bout; contest
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
free-for-all; open-to-all; optional (to participate in); non-compulsory
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
moderate; reserved; conservative; humble; mild-mannered; self-effacing
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
now; the present time; just now; another; more
cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; (emotionally) cold; coldhearted; unfeeling
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
player (of a sport); athlete; team member
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
close; intimate; on good terms
close; intimate; on good terms
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
pupil; student; schoolchild
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like