reskilling; improving one's skills
collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing
besides; furthermore; on top of that; and yet; nevertheless; even so
closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to; pressing hard; pressing hard (e.g. with a question); taking to task; grilling
trespassing; intrusion; to barge into; to burst into; to trespass
prevailing view; common opinion; commonly accepted theory
excuse; evasion; dodge; subterfuge; evasive answer
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
situation (turn of events) being unfavorable (disadvantageous)
something one finds questionable; something one finds fault with
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way
formal marriage interview
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks
veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; rich in experience
to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in
junior high school graduate; middle school graduate
tide; current; tendency; trend
group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
this and that; various things
tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability
to visit one place after another without plan or effect; to gallivant about
person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint
exposure to wind; severe criticism
malicious gossip; backbiting; speaking ill behind someone's back
zip; ping; zing; zoom; whoosh
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
offering to a deity or somebody's spirit; tribute to a person who is about to depart
number-withheld phone calls
to freeze (of one's body); to be frozen; to become numb (with cold); to be chilled
work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)
meal set before one; women's advances
leisurely, post-meal use of a toothpick