small number; few; minority
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)
light (e.g. aircraft, truck); light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); kei car
ground; earth's surface; land; lot; plot
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
judging from appearances; to all appearances; from the looks of it; on the face of it; apparently; seemingly
I feel that ...; I feel as though ...; I have a feeling that ...; I have the impression that ...; I think that ...
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
very strange; bizarre; weird; mysterious
main; principal; main dish; main course; main part; principal part
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from; to dodge (a question, blow, etc.)
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
space; room; space (between letters, words, etc.); space (piece of type); (outer) space
open-air fire (e.g. for garden refuse); bonfire; campfire; open fire (e.g. in a kitchen)
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
to take the initiative; to forestall; to beat to the punch
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (e.g. endure); stoically
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
to rise; to get up; to stand up; to sit up
to hide; to lie motionless in hiding
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
short sword; dagger; stiletto; hour hand (of a clock)
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse; litter
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to do thoroughly; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain; to grasp (a point)