tide; current; tendency; trend
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
mountain chain; mountains
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era
going (up) to the capital; going to Tokyo
descendant; progeny; offspring
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
memory (of having seen something or someone before); remembrance; recollection; recognition
closing of a school; closed school
depopulation; decrease in population
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
use; utilization; utilisation; application
to pierce; to go through; to remove (partitions between rooms); to knock (e.g. two rooms) into one; to carry out (to completion)
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk; to get plastered
seasoning; flavour; condition; state; (state of) health; physical condition
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
ground leveling; ground levelling; groundwork; laying foundations
(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior
full particulars; all the details; the whole story; everything (about); from beginning to end
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
gazing steadily at; observing (a person) closely; maintain a watch over
energy drink; nutritional supplement drink; vitamin drink
warming (limbering) up; warming-up exercises
negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated
belief that where there's a will, there's a way
number of times; frequency; count
basis; grounds; base (of operations); base (of a group of stones)
inquiry; enquiry; question; searching; looking for
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address; first tone (in Chinese); level tone
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar
group; bunch; crowd; group
to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance
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