waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
muscular; lean (of a company's operations, etc.)
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
number; number plate; license plate
behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
to push aside; to brush aside
taking no notice (of); thinking nothing of; disregarding; not aware of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration
to parade; to march; to walk in procession
bowing (a string instrument)
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation; applause
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)
cripple; disabled person; invalid; (game, internet, etc.) addict
isn't it (that) different (from usual, from what one could expect, etc.)?; isn't that wrong?; no, that's wrong; it's not like that; that's not the case
immediately; at once; right away; directly; in person; first hand
robbery; pillage; seizure; hijacking; plunder; extortion
becoming complicated; becoming involved; being intricate; becoming entangled; becoming jumbled; becoming mixed up
end; tip; extremities; rank and file; part of an organisation furthest from the centre
in an instant; in a flash; in the blink of an eye; in no time at all; just like that
to shorten the distance (between); to close the gap (e.g. on the leader); to get closer (e.g. to someone); to close in (on)
to win and advance to the next round
to bark; to howl; to howl (of the wind); to roar (of the sea); to yell; to shout
to get lost; to become lost; to go astray
to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
department store; department
ruby; ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material)
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
utility; (actual) profit; actual benefit; material gain
to be reluctant (to do); to be unwilling (to do); to falter; to slacken; to have a frequent urge to defecate but difficulty passing stool; to suffer from tenesmus
favorable reception; good reputation; popularity
country of origin (of goods)