recreational vehicle (usu. not camper or motor home); RV; sports utility vehicle; SUV; four wheel drive (car or minivan)
fetus; foetus; embryo; unborn child
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
first; preliminary; primary (sources, industry, etc.); original; linear (function, equation); first-order
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity
mining; data mining; cryptocurrency mining
enterprise; business; company; corporation
utter failure; gross mistake; wrong guess
archeological; archaeological
opening a business; opening a practice
unexploded ordnance; unexploded shell; unexploded bomb; UXO
to strike (gold, oil, etc.); to find (e.g. buried treasure); to dig up
change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly
to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice
manual transmission; MT; megaton; megatonne; magnetic tape; master tape; medical technologist
flour; meal; powder; dust
strongly; violently; quickly; suddenly
sample; example; specimen; display model (e.g. plastic food models used by restaurants)
(possibly) defective item; as-is item; item sold as is
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
Japanese company (business, firm)
fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
abasement; fall; forfeiture; sinking (in people's estimation)
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time