worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
(a) step ahead; (a) jump ahead
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
to look at; to gaze; to stare at
choice; selection; diagnosis; medical opinion; judgement; opinion
confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
how many months?; how long?
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to be opposite; to face each other
should; must; -able; probably; likely
silence (not speaking); muteness
to glare at each other; to confront each other
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
to wake up; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened
leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef); omakase
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
business; trade; operations; sales
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
tedium; boredom; dullness; to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
(not) a single person; (no) one
clerk; office worker; office staff
cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging
restless; fidgety; in a hurry
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay