独

spinning top (traditionally made of Japanese Babylon shell)

isolated gain in a slow or declining market (stock, currency, etc.)

self-study guide or book

Grammar

independent word; free-standing word

crowd-puller; box-office certainty

pubescent angelica (Angelica pubescens)

Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed)

freestanding; stand-alone

one-eyed hero

eating alone; eating by oneself

cell (e.g. monk's)

lonely in bed

detachment

swimming by oneself

swimming far ahead of the other swimmers (in a race)

talking to oneself

conducting a monologue

anti-German

independent city; city that is not part of another local government entity

ground stone tool from the late Jomon period (named after its similarity to the Buddhist tokko)

isolated fall of a security or currency in an otherwise strong market

cardboard spinning top, shaped and coloured like a flower

being in Germany; staying in Germany; residing in Germany

single woman; unmarried woman

Independence Party; Independent Party

dictatorship