share (of expenses); equity (in company); holdings; interest (in company)
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
scale; scope; plan; structure
insignificant; trifling; paltry; cottage (industry); tiny (company)
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
class; heading; group; category
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
increase in income and profit
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
expansion; extension; elongation; stretching
growing (graph rising to the right); expanding; soaring
so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute
terminal; computer terminal; information access device (smartphone, tablet, book-reader, etc.); end (e.g. of a roll of film)
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
to occupy; to hold; to account for; to make up; to take up
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.); image (on a screen); picture; surface of a painting (picture, drawing, etc.)
liaison group; liaison committee; liaison council
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
probably isn't (doesn't, won't, etc.); don't (doesn't) intend to; intend not to; must not; (when used in an imperative sentence) don't
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
ostensible (surface) reason
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute