incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
adds force or indicates command
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
contract; compact; agreement
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
when; how soon; how long until
regular employee; permanent employee; full-time employee
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
everybody; every last one of them; all
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
to swell; to rise; to bulge; to rouse; to get excited
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
mum; mom; mummy; the missus
katsudon; pork cutlet served on top of a bowl of rice
to feed (e.g. an animal on oats); to let eat; to support (e.g. a family); to provide for; to inflict (damage); to deal (e.g. a blow)
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
job hunting; job searching
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
to be silent; to say nothing
pleasant feeling; good vibes
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it