poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to lose heart; to lose motivation
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
knowing; (an) acquaintance
lazy; idle; indolent; slothful
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be sprained; to be snapped; to be broken
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
after that; afterwards; thereafter
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
to face; to go towards; to head towards
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
news; word; tidings; omen
to be surprised; to be amazed; to be frightened; surprise (e.g. surprise party)
time; season; period; phase; stage
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
private; confidential; informal; secret; (within the) family circle; (on the) inside
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability