attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
very interesting; of great interest
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
according to; by (means of); due to; because of
export; exportation; efferent
division; splitting; sharing; distribution; dissemination; allocation
reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries
store; reserve; stock; savings
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
to be contented; to be at ease
conviction; belief; confidence
(the condition of) one's health
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
to become better; to improve
the same; the said; likewise
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
rate; ratio; comparatively; contrary to expectations
aforesaid; above-mentioned; said; above
illegitimate child; bastard; love child
fecundity; having many children; abundant production
to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
certain; sure; doubtless; I have no doubt; You can depend on it; It's a safe bet
halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection; the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
smallpox vaccination; inoculation against smallpox
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
two eights; hachi-hachi (type of game)
based on; on the basis of
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing