cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate
duty; function; office; mission; task
fondly; admiringly; with fascination; with adoration; with enchantment
performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation
efficiently; skillfully; adeptly; adroitly; deftly
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
everything; anything; nothing
even so (expressing frustration, etc.); still
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
kanji compound; idiom; idiomatic phrase
example sentence; illustrative sentence; model sentence
offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
to deduct; to take away; to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind; to ebb and flow
writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books; cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for)
counter for books; volume
punch (with the fist); punching (a hole); hole punch; punch (drink); punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact
to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)
power; might; authority; influence
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
as (for); for; in the capacity of
tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful
expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
strategy meeting; council of war
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection
popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for
first thing in the morning
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time
the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days