early (days); initial stage; initial
most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
consequence; causal relationship; nexus
How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted
disadvantage; handicap; unfavorable position
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
one stroke (of a brush); a few lines (of writing); note; writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush); parcel (of land); same handwriting
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
patching (up); cutting a part and pasting a new one (e.g. a shoji door); cut and paste
to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out
expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...
even; (if) only; just; besides; on top of that
sale; offering for sale; release (for sale); launch (product)
crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
small fish; small fry; (a) nobody; small fry; unimportant person
older brother; elder brother
senior high school student
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
pharmaceutical department; college of pharmacy
on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)
alteration; falsification; faking
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella