appeal to a higher court; intermediate appeal
maid; helper; help; assistance
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
your husband; her husband
head house (family); birthplace; originator
lineage; line; unification; all (of you)
to think, feel, consider, know, etc.
the world in general; society; convention
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
field; sphere; realm; division; branch
yell (of encouragement); cheering (esp. for a school sports team)
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
good family; respectable family; decent family
to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)
upper; upward; outer; surface; top
to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)
to enrich; to make wealthy
personality; character; individuality; personhood
form; method; system; formula
ordinary; run-of-the-mill; usual
to pour into; to wash down; to insert (e.g. into a data stream)
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
taking on a life of its own (of a rumour, etc.); walking by oneself; talking a walk by oneself; walking unaided; being able to walk without help; standing on one's own feet
close examination; careful investigation; investigation of a crime; inquiry into someone's guilt; winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game); (arch.) reciting and appreciating traditional poetry
conceiving (an idea); thinking up; invention; original idea; new idea
adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
reading-book; reader; guidebook; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
exactly as stated; verbatim
repetition; iteration; recursion; recurrence; recapitulation
substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial
observation; survey; watching
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion