explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
tedious; lengthy; overlong; long-winded
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
place; situation; position; location
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
relatively; comparatively
to neglect; to leave undone; to lay aside
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
considerably; fairly; quite
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that
(logical) true; regular; 10^40; ten thousand undecillion; original; positive
large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)
near; close; beside; third person
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
now; the present time; just now; another; more
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
man; male; masculine gender
second marriage; remarriage
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
town; city; municipal; urban
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
worthy of special mention
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent