association; union; guild
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
tip-top; top; top-drawer; best; foremost; elite
to exercise one's talent; to display one's ability
indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions
prompt; immediate; in real time
seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading
recipe; prescription (medical); how-to guide (e.g. crafts)
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
transcendence; excellence; superiority
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
to invite in; to show someone in
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
turning another away at the gate or front door; refusing to receive a caller
due to the fact that; because of
leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting
to have one's faults exposed; to have one's secrets blown
birth; creation; formation
contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
reward; honorarium; remuneration