commencing with; including
setting a place; setting the table
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
drinking party; get-together
incommunicative; taciturn
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
attachment (esp. to things); love; affection
deplorable; regrettable; disappointing; vexing; unfortunate
to raise objections; to complain; (to have the right) to say anything
to choose one's words (with care); to be careful with one's words
to spring; to bound; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to pay handsomely; to splurge
time; thyme; time out (e.g. in sport)
primness; prim person; clear soup
route (bus, train, air, etc.); line; line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
soft (and fluffy) (e.g. bed, bread, baked potato); (arch.) absent-mindedly
mat; canvas (boxing, wrestling)
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
good feeling; feeling good
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to blackmail; to extort; to shake down
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
early on; earlier on; from early
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
to shout (in anger); to yell
to call (someone) back; to recall; to call home; to bring back (memories, etc.); to recall; to revive
to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than
increasing; uploading; posting (e.g. content); close-up; finishing shooting (of a film, etc.); upswept hairstyle; being up (i.e. leading in sports)
proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
glass sphere; glass bead; glass marble
to be coming; to be popular; to be fashionable; to be angry; to have blown one's lid