report card; result sheet
breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays
as soon as ...; just after ...; immediately after ...; hurriedly; in haste; quickly
first; preliminary; primary (sources, industry, etc.); original; linear (function, equation); first-order
in this way; along these lines; similarly
university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
university graduate; having graduated from university
finding employment; getting a job
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)
moratorium; period of grace; extension (of time, e.g. to make payments); postponement (of social responsibility); immaturity; not having developed emotional maturity
major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle
the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous
ten; 10; ten years of age
beyond imagination; unimaginable
rich person; wealthy person
to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)
to refer to; to consult; to use as a reference
(teacher's) platform; podium; dais
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
flour; meal; powder; heroin
I'm off (and will be back later); see you later; to go (and then come back)
to be away from home; to be out of the house
speech; address; curtain speech; prologue; way of speaking; manner of speech
one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives)
to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
upper half of the body; upper body
to leave one's seat; to temporarily excuse oneself (from a meeting, etc.); to step outside; to be away (from one's desk, etc.)
excited; enthusiastic; high-tensile (e.g. steel); high-voltage (e.g. circuit); high-tension (e.g. current)
gathering material (for an article, novel, etc.); collecting information; covering (an event, incident, etc.); reporting; interview (for a news story)
so-so; passable; now, now; there, there; my, my; oh my!
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
wisdom; wit; sagacity; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; to appear on the cover of a magazine