thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
sorry; excuse me; thank you
to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)
how; in what way; how about; questionable
to take out (e.g. garbage); to put out (e.g. dishes on table); to serve (e.g. meal); to get out (e.g. food from cupboard); to submit (e.g. ideas, opinions); to provide for
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
cheese; tee (piping); T-joint; cheese (said when taking a photograph)
enough; sufficient; plenty; sufficiently; fully; thoroughly
deep sea; depths of the sea; ocean depths
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
to be palatable; to suit one's taste
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
milk; breast; loop; decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
breeding; raising; rearing
to be collected; to be gathered (e.g. mushrooms, etc.); to be harvested; to be able to collect; to be able to mine
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about
cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
to be; to exist; to be (honorific copula)
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very
person who oversleeps; sleepyhead
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
to be perturbed; to be agitated
to bend one's head slightly to one side; to look slightly doubtful
unwelcome; nerdish; unpopular