pleased to make your acquaintance
discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.); detection; exposure; disclosure
(feeling a chill or shiver) suddenly; (feeling) chilly; chillily; with a sudden sense of dread (or fear, etc.); (being) suddenly (afraid, frightened, etc.); suddenly (breaking out in a cold sweat)
personal (employee); employed; retained
movements; manner; behaviour; farewell dinner (given by someone about to leave on a trip)
good family; respectable family; decent family
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
turn (in line); order of things; sequential order
student number (for seating, etc. in class)
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout
moderate (degree); proper (amount); temperate; suitable
district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
moment; brief space of time
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
cold; chilly; cold (attitude, stare, etc.); frigid; composed; cool
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl
author; writer; novelist; artist
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
upstart; nouveau riche; new money; piece promoted to gold general
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
bad reputation; infamy; ill repute; unfavorable criticism; unfavourable criticism
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition
territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
shallows; shoal; rapids; current; position; place
to get into a fight; to take up the gauntlet; to accept a challenge
timetable (esp. a weekly school timetable); schedule
homeroom; form room; home run; human resources; heart rate; house of representatives
as you see; as you can see
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly