personal; individual; private
unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable
to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
to irritate; to grate on one's nerves; to aggravate; to be galling; to be invidious
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk
quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
enlightened generation; millennial generation lacking ambition and material desire
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
within; inside of; less than
speech; expression; wording; language
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
squaring; multiplying (a number) by itself; second power
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
failure; poor result; disfavour; disfavor; unpopularity
Pocky (biscuit stick coated with chocolate, strawberry, etc.)
gigantic peak; kyoho grape; large purple-black slip-skin grape variety, like Concord grapes
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
couple who are more than friends, but not in an intimate relationship
time; season; period; phase; stage
finding employment; getting a job
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
ability to take action; ability to take initiatives; energy; dynamism; drive
to discuss; to talk together
the country; countryside; outskirts; suburbs; presence; being in attendance