successive jobs; consecutive jobs
letter; missive; note; mail
a few years ago; some years back
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
able; capable; competent; talented; efficient
rest; break; recreation; recuperation; convalescence
older brother; elder brother
another family; another house
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse
to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child
studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)
small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise
Everyone is safe (all right)
feeling of relief (for the time being); peace of mind (for now)
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment
careless; sloppy; faulty; using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
dealing with; coping with
secret; private; surreptitious
The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...
to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on
recovery; rescue; recapture
random firing; reckless firing; excessive issue
to start making a noise; to start making an uproar; to go berserk
sly; cunning; sneaky; crafty; unfair; dishonest
bustling; busy; crowded; lively (party, voices, etc.); loud; noisy
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)
taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group
to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)
exclusive; attached to; specialist
fake; something false; sham; deception
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
creation; generation; formation; derivation
by (means of); by doing; due to; via; through
to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)