most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest
acquaintance; appreciative friend
mopping-up operation; search-and-destroy operation
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
western direction; Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise); western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
anchorage (area); moorage; roadstead
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
(arch.) large river (esp. the Yangtze); Lake Biwa
national border; provincial border
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion
turnout (of people); start (e.g. race, campaign, term of office); constant forward movement; initial charge
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
way out; means to escape; escape route
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
composition; formation; organization; organisation; compilation
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
lower region; lower part; region below
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board