to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
advantage; benefit; merit; good point; plus
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
to collect; to assemble; to gather
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
application; request; petition
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
strict; rigid; exact; fair; impartial
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
fairness; impartiality; justice; objectivity
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
to assign; to allot; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate; to assess
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
latest; newest; late-breaking (news)
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest
dressing room; green room; backstage; behind the scenes; the inside; inside affairs
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
undisputed; entirely; perfect
usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
heir; heiress; inheritor; successor
senior high school; high school
school festival; campus festival
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty