validity; verification; propriety
relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
guess; conjecture; surmise
to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign
don't worry about it; forget about it
one's business; reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha; bargain; discount; (arch.) money paid to a prostitute or geisha
I appreciate your efforts
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia
reproachful; hateful; bitter
repeatedly; frequently; over and over; exceedingly; sincerely; very much
errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit
going out to shop; going shopping; buying in quantity; buying wholesale; bulk purchasing
and they all lived happily ever after; having a happy ending; ending without incident
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
present continuous tense; present progressive form
reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; one paragraph
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain
now that; since; so long as; because
to follow another's example
bento; Japanese box lunch
already completed (arrived, happened, etc.)
several times; once or twice
no concern of mine; nothing to do with me
deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
one o'clock; once; at one time; for a time; for a while; a time
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion