department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
Interscholastic Athletic Meet; inter-school athletics competition
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
Miyagi prefecture (Tōhoku area)
preliminary contest; qualifying round; trial; heat; primary
the first and second; a few
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
war; battle; match; game; competition
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
fierce fight; close contest
announcement; presentation; demonstration; displaying; showing; introducing
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
ace (playing card); ace (of a team); leading player; ace; hotshot; ace (serve)
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
king; monarch; ruler; champion
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
mountain stream; valley; dale; wetlands; swamp; marsh
educational institution; school; academy; campus
first match (in a series)
to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with
senior high school; high school
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
set; set meal; combo-meal; hairdo
opposite; opposition; versus; vs.; to (e.g. "winning a game five to three"); equal footing
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
really; truly; indeed; good grief
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible