hold; catch; connection; relationship; unease; discomfort
mechanical pencil; automatic pencil; propelling pencil
side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; homeworking; simple job carried out at home; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending
schedule; program; calendar
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot
company employee; office worker; white-collar worker
one-man business; sole proprietor; sole proprietorship; individual owner-manager
chief; main; principal; important
to get damaged; to get chipped; to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt (reputation)
fair and square; open and aboveboard; bold and forthright
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
vanishing behind the clouds (e.g. of the moon); vanishing; suddenly disappearing; going into hiding
to make an enemy (of); to turn (someone) into an enemy; to antagonize
to waste; to sacrifice; to spoil; to ruin; to lose; to forfeit
whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; (arch.) deftly finishing up; (arch.) putting on the final touches
to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on
outsider; someone outside of a group
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; fixed-term commuter pass; fixed-term deposit
preparations for returning (home)
ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat
to have one's predictions turn out exactly right; to have a speculation turn out well
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
under examination; under test (e.g. device); on trial
reading partway; leaving half-read
to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)
carrying voice; well-projected voice
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; lower radical of a kanji; money
red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot
second year (college) student; sophomore
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude
as far as the eye can see
to follow (a road, path, etc.); to trace; to follow (a clue, scent, tracks, plot, etc.); to trace (a route, history, family tree, etc.); to head towards (of a situation); to go in the direction of
wall of people; crowd of people lined up (e.g. spectators); throng of people