-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
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
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
to engage (with); to be in gear (with); to bite each other; to be on the same wavelength
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
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)
academic background; academic credentials; academic record
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
such; like that; that sort of; very
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
racing (of an engine); spinning one's wheels; running idle; fruitless effort; going nowhere; going round in circles
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
company; corporation; workplace
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
to be coming; to be popular; to be fashionable; to be angry; to have blown one's lid
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); glad you could make it; tiredness; fatigue
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
notice; attention; observation
it is, isn't it?; I know, right?; innit?
island in a pond or river
ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly