amusement; entertainment; recreation; pleasure; pastime; hobby
tedium; boredom; dullness; to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of
to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate
acquaintance; relations; sexual intercourse; intersection
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
peers; friends; fellow workers; comrades
discussion; argument; debate
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; deterioration; degeneration; transmutation
to pick out (with the fingers); to pull out; to throw out (e.g. of a bar); to drag out; to chuck out
to put away; to stow away; to tuck away; to hoard
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
nothing but; none other than
pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); heavenly being; celestial being
Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)
high steward; grand master
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
high and low; aristocrat and plebeian
distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)
the same; the said; likewise
science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
autonomous; autonomic; self-sustaining; self-directed
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
supreme; greatest; highest; best