inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk
human-wave tactics; throwing people at a problem
first; preliminary; primary (sources, industry, etc.); original; linear (function, equation); first-order
second; secondary; quadratic (function, equation, etc.); second-order
the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since
gold mine; treasure trove; golconda; (lit.) mountain of treasures
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
five times (as much); quintuple; fivefold
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass; poor-quality coke (coal); left-overs; remnants
shellfish; seashell; shell
medicine; agent; (chemical) substance; drug; dose
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
clear layer of fluid (at the top of a mixture); supernatant liquid; supernate
to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
crystal; crystallization; crystallisation; fruits (of labor, union, etc.)
centrifugation; centrifugal separation
device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity
concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation
heavy work; manual labour; feat of strength
strained lees (e.g. sake, tofu); draff
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
(arch.) ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata); jiaogulan (species of herbaceous vine; Gynostemma pentaphyllum)
mizuame; glucose syrup; starch syrup; corn syrup
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
falling far short (of); being far behind; being far inferior (to); being no match (for)