chief; main; principal; major
one's course; one's path; one's road
precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
smallish; on the small side
important position; strategic point; important point; main point; essentials
fields (of rice and other crops)
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
crops; agricultural produce
retention; maintenance; preservation
food self-sufficiency rate
trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
taking advantage of (an opportunity); jumping on the bandwagon; taking passage (in); getting a lift; getting a ride
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion
domestic discord; internal discord; internal strife; internal struggle; infighting
detour; circumvention; turning movement
how long; how far; how much
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
to go along; to walk along; to follow
to be too numerous; to be too much
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
to rebuild; to reconstruct
call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
withdrawal; retraction; revocation; repeal
evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
to demolish; to tear down; to pull down
special; particular; peculiar; unique
the aforementioned; the said; (man, incident, etc.) in question; the usual
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
members; member; constituent
to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to resign (post); to quit; to decline; to turn down
to begin to appear; to begin to come in