duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
negotiations; bargaining; dialogue; duet
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
commencing with; including
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
to take into consideration; to use one's discretion
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
malicious; deliberately mean
to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together
this sort of; of this kind; of the sort; such
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
right opposite; directly across; just in front of; face to face
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert
sauce (esp. soy or mirin-based dipping sauce); hanging; something hanging (flap, lappet, etc.); (kendo) loin guard; kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character; -ass
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
bustling; busy; crowded; lively (party, voices, etc.); loud; noisy
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
to control; to command; to get the better of
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
to grab at; to grasp at; to clutch at
calm; composed; cool; quiet
to make lively; to enliven; to make exciting
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
to overestimate (someone); to overrate; to think too highly of; to make too much of; to give (someone) too much credit
some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous
new menu item; new dish on a menu
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
sightseer; spectator; viewer
emotional strength; force of will
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
right on; dead on; fitting to a T; on the button; perfectly correct