genuine article; real thing; real deal
the opposite sex; isomerism
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
delicacy; tact; considerateness; sensitivity; thoughtfulness
to dis; to diss; to disrespect
ladle; dipper; wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris); cow parsley; keck
and then; in addition to that; also; even so
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
Girls' Day; Dolls' Festival; Hinamatsuri; menstrual day; menstrual period
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night
soft; software; soft hat; felt hat; soft serve ice cream; softball
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
to be honest; to be frank; honestly; if you want to know the truth
proper; respectable; decent; honest
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
rest; recess; vacation; holiday; dormancy (of a silkworm prior to moulting)
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at
competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)
to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead
madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
innocent look; nonchalant look; look of ignorance; air of innocence
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque
appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
one thin flat object; one sheet
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
distrust; unjust suspicion
in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days
calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
to apologize; to apologise
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
decision; determination; resolution