deadly serious; deadly earnest
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
to (go and) do; to make (a blunder, mess, etc.); to perpetrate; to achieve; to accomplish; to pull off
time; season; period; phase; stage
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover
(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely
improvement of relations; rapprochement
acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation
about; concerning; related to; -ish
entrusting (everything to); leaving (a matter) entirely with
judgement; judgment; decision; ruling; finding; adjudication
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
bitter tears; (lit.) tears of blood
dissatisfaction; discontent; disapproval; objection; complaint; protest
obvious; (as) clear as day; plain to see
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
the most; the best; the greatest; supreme; unrivalled; unsurpassed
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
marital relationship; marital relations
degeneration; retrogression; atrophy; regression (e.g. of society); deterioration; degeneration
thermoregulation (of the body)
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features
mobility; maneuverability
class; heading; group; category
presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd
classification; categorization; sorting
tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
mobile game (esp. online, free-to-play); social network game
bathing suit; swimsuit; swimmers
Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono; Japanese-style bookbinding
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of