rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
virtually nonexistent; negligible; absolutely useless
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
slump; crash; heavy fall; sudden decline
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; fixed-term commuter pass; fixed-term deposit
deposit (e.g. on the purchase of a house); earnest money; guarantee money; margin (payment); warrant money; cover
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
wild; violent; rough-mannered; rough (e.g. work); crude; coarse
one's background; one's history; one's circumstances; one's merit; asset; strong point
more than one can possibly use; countless (e.g. examples); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)
futures; futures contract
lineage; pedigree; family line
underwater; behind closed doors; behind the scenes; below the surface
to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to begin making a sound (ringing, singing, crying, etc.)
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
imperial palace; shrine; Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager; woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child; elderly woman of imperial lineage
kapow; bang; bulging; filled to bursting; prostitute (catering to Occupation soldiers in Japan after WWII)
left-off cargo; passengers left behind; rounding error; truncation error; remainder after truncation to an integer value
if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
to be in confusion or commotion; to be in a turmoil; to be crowded or jammed with people
rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via
repulse; repelling (e.g. the enemy); driving back
spray; sprayer; atomizer; sprinkles (confectionery); hundreds and thousands