to pass (of time); to elapse
sale; offering for sale; putting on sale; putting on the market; release (for sale)
at that time; in those days
junior high school student; middle school pupil
senior high school student
university student; college student
working adult; full-fledged member of society
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)
author; writer; novelist; artist
life; living; livelihood; (one's) living
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
to come near (to); to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to reach (a stage, period, etc.); to overhang; to hang over
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
(for the) first time in one's life
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned
emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect
deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe
original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive
play; playing; game; play and dance (at a kindergarten or elementary school)
plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception
wherein; therein; thereinto; among which
(fictional) character; character; personality; persona
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
freely; right and left; as one pleases
to run around; to bustle about
to receive; to take; to get someone to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data)