punctuation; pause; juncture; end; (place to) stop
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
in proportion to; just as much as
to head home; to leave for home
weight training; muscle training
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away
way (of doing); manner; method; means
(bank) balance; remainder
training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
as soon as possible; ASAP; even a little early
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh
unbecoming; unsuitable; disgraceful; wrong for one's age; unworthy of one's years; thoughtless for one's age
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
friend; companion; acquaintance; friendship; companionship
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
to overstep the mark; to go too far; to overdo it
paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow
function; facility; faculty; feature
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
with a clatter; with a rattle; empty; bare; raspy (voice); gravelly; with a gargle
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)
certificate (usually of proof of something); credentials
forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting
to thrust before; to thrust at
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)
right to know; right to access information
the other day; a few days ago
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
during imprisonment; while in jail
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up