four man group; quartet; the Gang of Four
head; lead; vanguard; first
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
slapping; splashing; splatting; banging shut; flat (refusal, denial, etc.)
sympathy; compassion; pity
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
brown envelope; manila envelope
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
good-naturedness; good-natured person; credulous person; easy mark
saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly
what the?; what's going on?; what's this?
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
to be square; to be angular; to be jagged; to be formal; to be stiff; to be ceremonious
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
humbly; after a time; later; followed by; next
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
minute; detailed; careful; scrupulous; thorough
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
to flick out; to spring out; to calculate; to work out; to expel (from a group); to drive out
coincident with; while; simultaneously
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
Nobody's Boy (1878 novel by H-H Malot); The Adventures of Remi; Sans Famille
time around sunset; early evening
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
with a clash; with a thud; unexpectedly (meeting someone); suddenly (ending); abruptly (coming to a halt)