ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
sender; consignor; remitter
language of flowers; floriography; flower symbolism, e.g. red roses mean love
hearsay; rumor; grapevine
the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
menial; meanness; servility; abject
noncommittal; equivocal; indecisive; evasive; ambiguous; vague
lead; leading; lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede; lead (wire); lead (e.g. dog); leash
black key (on a piano, organ, etc.)
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
starfish; sea star; asteroid; northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)
crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci)
to use up (all one's strength, ideas, etc.); to exert oneself; to do one's best
honeymoon; being in an intimate relationship; honeymoon (period)
stipulation; prescription; provision; regulation; rule
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
day (as in holiday); daytime
professor; teaching; instruction
nursing school; nursing college
(hospital) nurse; registered nurse; RN
junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution
job; work; duties; trade; skill
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after
entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university
because of; on account of; regarding; per; apiece
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
to put oneself in (situation, environment, etc.); to surround oneself with
quadruped walking; walking on four legs
moratorium; period of grace; extension (of time, e.g. to make payments); postponement (of social responsibility); immaturity; not having developed emotional maturity
discount price; special offer price
corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)
sentiment; sentimentality
specific medicine; wonder drug; silver bullet
to wind (of a road, etc.); to meander; to twist; to undulate; to surge; to swell
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game