hemp; cannabis; marijuana; Shinto paper offerings
mundane; routine; everyday; unremarkable; common; day-to-day
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
research publication; scholarly publication
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted
origin; source; exit; point of departure; time to take action
bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk
upstart; nouveau riche; new money; piece promoted to gold general
to the last; persistency; thoroughness
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
assessment (of value, damages, etc.); revision (of a budget)
even if; even though; however; no matter how
sales; selling; marketing
to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)
excitement; exasperation; indignation; rage; fury
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
loosely organized criminal gang; non-yakuza organized crime group
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
how can (one) do something
trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
preference; priority; precedence
sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass
alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
to choke; to have trouble breathing
incompetent; no-talent; worthless person; dimwit; incompetence
disorderly; messy; absurd; unreasonable; very; extremely
cleaning up somebody else's mess; carrying the can; ass-wiping; arse-wiping
junior high school student; middle school pupil