proposal; offer; report; proposition; notice; request
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
declaration; proclamation; announcement
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
to tailor; to make (clothing); to train; to bring up; to make it seem like; to pass off
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
to supply (goods, money, etc.); to cover (costs); to pay; to give board; to provide meals
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive
to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
shopkeeper; storekeeper; proprietor of a shop
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
to see eye to eye; to be on the same wavelength; to talk the same language
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)