to sit for an examination
examination; exam; test; trial; experiment; test
war potential; military strength; fighting power; ability (to compete); capabilities; valuable asset
useful thing; usable article
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N
start; origin; beginnings
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
to lay waste; to devastate; to invade; to break into; to troll (e.g. web forums); to spam
to be a matter of life or death
to see everything; to see all; to abandon; to give up; to sell at a loss; to sell off
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
elder; senior; senior monk; dean; presbyter
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
ostentation; show; affectation
career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
feeling uneasy; very worried; very anxious; on tenterhooks; on pins and needles
to rustle; to sway; to stir; to flutter
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
happy memory; sweet memory
failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year); falling short of the standard; not making the grade
to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded
unemployment; losing one's job; becoming unemployed
remuneration; recompense; reward; toll
activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role
mud wall with a roof; roofed mud wall
cypress bark roof; hinoki bark thatching
manner of Heian era palatial architecture
fluff; fuzz; nap; hachures; hatching
nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)
foreign enemy; outside invader
nowadays; in this day and age
equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence
roofed corridor connecting two buildings (in traditional palatial-style architecture)