seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
honorific/polite/humble prefix
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)
which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
academic meritocracy; education-conscious society; society that places (excessive) emphasis on academic records
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
employee (of a store); shop assistant; clerk; salesperson
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
hors d'oeuvre; appetizer; appetiser; starter
assortment (of food); assorted dishes; combination platter
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
with a view to marriage; with marriage in mind
concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
it's best to; it's safest to; there's nothing better than
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
difficult delivery; difficult childbirth; dystocia
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
forever; endlessly; on and on; meandering; wandering; winding
how long; how much; to what extent
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave