entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
chime; bell (e.g. doorbell)
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
living; lifestyle; living room
to astonish; to astound; to stupefy; to flabbergast; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound
moving (dwelling, office, etc.); changing residence
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
dining; dining room; meal
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
confections; sweets; candy; cake
dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk
to call (someone) back; to recall; to call home; to bring back (memories, etc.); to recall; to revive
slave trade; white-slave trade; human trafficking
someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)
to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)
to hold hands; to join hands; to do together; to go arm in arm; to join forces; to link hands
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause
to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly
this occasion; at this time; now
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
to mediate; to intervene; to smooth
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled
smoothly; easily; readily
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
future (usually near); prospects
studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
private tutor; coach; governess
income; receipts; revenue