(animal) collar; necklace; choker
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
to say (something) over one's shoulder
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
bluff; false show of power; bold front
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
to chide; to rebuke; to reprove
to keep one's mouth shut; to refuse to talk
two times; twice; two degrees
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
cheap article; poor quality article
high; tall; expensive; high-priced; high (level); above average (in degree, quality, etc.)
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
(within) the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
medicine manufacture; drug manufacture
head office; main office; main shrine; this company; this shrine
lineage; pedigree; family line
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
disappearance; vanishing; loss; dying away; wearing off
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
research material; experimental material
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
evaporation; disappearance (of people intentionally concealing their whereabouts); unexplained disappearance
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
grave maintenance; grave keeper
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
conference room; council room
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
long-cherished ambition; satisfaction
to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray