(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
each nation; many nations; many countries
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
slump; crash; heavy fall; sudden decline
around the world; throughout the world
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
chain; chaining; connection; (genetic) linkage
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
getting mixed up in; getting embroiled in; involvement; entanglement; by-blow
many; much; plenty; hardly
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
really; truly; indeed; good grief
as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt