highest rank; highest position; high-end; highest-order; most-significant (e.g. bit)
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting
smooth; meticulous; painstaking; detailed
slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade
finally; in the end; on top of all that
fellow women; between women; among women; woman-to-woman
depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
the preceding year; the previous year; last year
the New Year begins; the New Year starts
to help each other; to cooperate
feeling of fellowship; fellow feeling
to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
hokora; small wayside shrine
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
throne; crown; government position; court rank; social standing; rank; grade (of quality, etc.)
to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
change; transformation; inversion
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
one's place of appointment; one's post
self-indulgent; undisciplined; slovenly; debauched; negligent
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
willpower; energy; vitality
senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion
arbitration; conciliation; mediation
supernatural power; divine power; magical power
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
to be utterly amazed; to be stunned; to be disgusted
free (of charge); gratuitous