office hours; business hours; working hours
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
section manager; section chief
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
patience; perseverance; persistence; tenacity; energy
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
(instruction) manual; operations manual; basic rules (pertaining to how a job should be carried out); (car with) manual transmission
personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
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)
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
to take over; to hand over
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
ahead; before; the future