needle (compass, gauge, etc.); hand (clock); indicator; guiding principle; guideline; guide
absolutely essential; indispensable; vital; critical
home position; origin; usual place (for something)
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
to join together; to combine; to join up
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
full portrait; whole aspect; full story
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to compress; to pack
convenient; handy; useful
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
lookup function; search function
being familiar with; having a thorough knowledge of; being well-informed about
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
study; research; investigation
to need; to demand; to take; to require
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
cultivation; refinement; culture; education
classical form of martial art
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
social life; social intercourse
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to surround; to crowd around
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape)
explanation; commentary; exposition; elucidation
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous
writing; composition; essay; sentence
conversion (e.g. yen to dollars); change; exchange; translation (numerical)
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
free (of charge); gratuitous
admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement; self-identification
being drawn to many things; distraction; difficulty of choice; difficulty in choosing; being unable to decide