service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
carrot and stick; (lit.) candy and whip
manageable; tractable; easy to care for; easy to deal with; easy to handle
indictment; prosecution; complaint
fast approach; quick intimacy
beauty treatment; cosmetology; beauty salon; beauty-treatment clinic
pounding lightly on the shoulders (to relieve stiffness); shoulder massage; massage stick for pounding the shoulders; tapping on the shoulder (as a hint to resign); urging someone to resign; pressuring someone to resign
child; childish person; immature person
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
favorable reception; good reputation; popularity
lost property; something dropped and left behind; dropping something (without realising); losing something
distortion; falsification; perversion
minority group (party); minority
(sexually) attractive older woman; mature woman; MILF
without authority; without reason; unnecessarily; recklessly; indiscriminately
consultation on career, university, etc. choices
season (for fruit, seafood, etc.); best time of the year (for); in vogue; popular; hot
disclosure; exposure; revelation
ideally; if one were to wish for more
to be of benefit; to be beneficial; to be useful; to do one good; to be good for one
faculty of medicine; college of medicine; department of medicine; school of medicine; medical school
Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA)
noise (usu. unpleasant); interference (e.g. radio); static; gossip; irresponsible criticism
scholarship; stipend; bursary; student loan
to think of; to come up with
inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable
working adult; full-fledged member of society
leader; central personage
birth date; date of birth; DOB
(great mental) resources; quick brain; resourcefulness; good wits
explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology
thick; deep; kind; cordial; serious (of an illness); abundant
inner thoughts; real intention; at heart; deep down; inner center (centre)
to have a warped view; to be jaundiced; to feel that one has been unfairly treated; to be jealous; to be envious
to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience
fishing; collecting shells; fisherman; fisher
unseasonable; out-of-season
lifting a child high up in the air
be (that) as it may; having said that
less than ...; smaller ...
disliking a certain food without having tried it; disliking something without having tried it; being prejudiced against; having an instinctive aversion to
touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz); making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant); foul (comp. karuta); touching a card which is not in the same territory as the correct card