active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
star player; star athlete
to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in
infotainment television program; TV gossip show; (tabloid) talk show; talk show featuring discussion of current news, etc.
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
to look after; to take care (of); to favor; to gaze at; to stare at; to set one's eyes on
outsider; someone outside of a group
No Entry; No Trespassing; No Admittance; off-limits; restricted; forbidden
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
same generation; one's generation
friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy
leisure time; idle moment
(arch.) dismissal; (arch.) discharge
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
(corporate) restructuring; downsizing; laying off people
to understand; to make out
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
young lover of an older woman; boy toy
eating with one's fingers; snitching food; snatched food; embezzlement; misappropriation; flirting
forget it; forget what I just said; scratch that; check that
attentive; scrupulous; tactful; tasteful; smart
junior high school student; middle school pupil
to obligate; to make compulsory; to require; to mandate
red-hot iron; gunfire; gambling; violent-tempered
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
scene; sight; scenario; setting
devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
cool; stylish; awesome; sick; sweet; dope
humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
to get in someone's pocket; to help oneself to someone's wallet; to curry favour (favor); to butter up; to get in close to one's opponent
to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on; to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation