sign; indication; omen; symptom
woman; female; feminine gender
article to be delivered; present
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream
ratio; proportion; percentage
condominium (usu. mid or high-rise); apartment building; apartment house; block of flats; apartment; flat
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
rational; reasonable; logical
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
elevator; lift; elevator (aviation)
arrival chime (of an elevator, train, etc.)
(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very
to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand
to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds); too-good-to-be-true stories
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion
barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality
to disclose; to divulge; to expose; to open (a grave); to dig out
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
beginning; outset; first; onset
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice