abstention (from voting); renunciation (of a right); withdrawal (from a contest)
impassioned speech; fervent speech
inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike
fundamental principles; main lines; outline; summary; general features
custom; practice; convention; precedent
primness; prim person; clear soup
free and easy; open-hearted; relaxed; not fussy; frank
reputation; respectability
to anticipate; to foresee
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
four man group; quartet; the Gang of Four
backing (for a position); giving support to; helping (someone) to a position
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
distinction; discrimination
debt collection; debt collector
surface of a board or record
recruitment; invitation; raising (funds, donations, etc.); collection; flotation (of shares, loans, etc.)
all-you-can-eat; eating as much as one likes
one's post; place of work; workplace
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
kinako mochi; mochi sprinkled with sweetened soy flour
kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
out of control; uncontrollable
victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm
extinguishing a fire; (Edo-period) fireman
multicolored; multicoloured; of various colors; diverse; of all kinds; all manners of
street stall; stand; booth
parade float; festival float
to draw around (e.g. a curtain); to drag around; to take (someone) around; to parade around; to order about; to lead