progress; advance; improvement; development
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
to be found; to be discovered
sense of distance (physical or emotional); feeling of distance
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable
to break into a smile; to smile broadly; to beam
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
to tumble down; to roll down
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
the defensive; passive attitude; passivity; the passive; passive voice; ukemi (the art of falling safely)
to nail; to knock; to bang (e.g. one's head); to throw (e.g. a rock); to fling
stout; well-fleshed; well-built; well-padded; plump
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; (arch.) money
finish; finishing; finishing touches
Europeans and Americans; Westerners
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
kindergartener; preschooler
boy; son; baby boy; young man
young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age
ten-gallon hat; cowboy hat
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
unladylike; unbecoming; immodest; unthinkable; impossible; ridiculous
five characters; five letters; five-syllable verse of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.; first five syllables of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
(in) the presence of the whole company; with all eyes filed upon (one)
to cuddle; to comfort; to rock; to soothe; to dandle; to humor
navel; belly button; protrusion or depression in the middle of an object; center; centre
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in
to reflect; to throw back light