establishment; founding; incorporation (of a business)
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodles, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
world; society; people; the public
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
to hide; to conceal; to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard; to become quiet and inconspicuous
to give a warning; to remind (a person) of; (lit.) to drive in a nail
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
to irritate; to offend; to provoke; to get on one's nerves
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
to look old; to become time-worn; to become worn out; to become old and grubby; to become musty
cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; to appear on the cover of a magazine
affectation; showiness; pretence
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
unit (e.g. meters, grams, etc.); denomination; unit (i.e. one comprised of many); group; credit (in school, university, etc.); point
(national) capital (city); metropolis
in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash
indecisively; hesitantly; irresolutely; wishy-washily
to be at a loss for words
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
slow to act; slow in starting work
existing of or by itself; self-existence
neighboring countries; surrounding countries
blank space (in a document); blank; void; whitespace
territory; domain; dominion; possession
union; combination; association; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
tall story; tall tale; cock-and-bull story; bullshit
hollow; cavity; hole; cave
to trample; to crush underfoot
regrettable; vexing; upsetting; unthinkable; wholly unexpected
hey; yo; hi; yessir; understood