thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
personality; character; individuality; personhood
contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist
reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
synesthesia (synaesthesia)
mode (e.g. of a machine); setting; state (of mind); mode (e.g. work mode, study mode); mode; mode
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
thorough; exhaustive; complete
to (hit and) crush; to smash; to squash; to defeat soundly; to crush (an opponent, hopes, etc.)
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
to mark the end; to spell the end
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
modus operandi; criminal technique; trick
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
board chairman; managing director; chief director
reigning (over a country); dominating; controlling; dictating
sovereign; emperor; monarch
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
head of the student council; president of the student council
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
activity (esp. energetic or successful); great efforts; active participation; walking about with great vigor
with my own (two) eyes; with these very eyes
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
notice; attention; observation
to become the focus of (attention, sympathy, hope, etc.)
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
being defeated; being eliminated (from competition)
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate