to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
(one's) quota; assignment
modern Japanese; current written style
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
underline; side line (equivalent to underlining in vertically written text)
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
context (of a passage); line of thought; context; environment; circumstances
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (e.g. vegetables); (for two men) to have anal sex
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
confirmation; verification; validation; review; check; affirmation
name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name
memorization; memorisation; learning by heart
rhyming game; play on words; pun
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
had better ...; had better not ...
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
to recall; to remember; to recollect
to be dented; to be indented; to be beaten; to be overwhelmed; to be disheartened; to feel down
to behave like a spoiled child; to behave like a spoilt child; to fawn on; to depend and presume upon another's benevolence
reality; actuality; hard fact
probability; likelihood; chances
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful