handicraft; work; construction; maneuvering; manoeuvering
extermination; expulsion; destruction
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
genuine; authentic; true; pure
calculation; self-interest; selfishness
feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report
Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Singapore
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
water's edge; beach; shore
old age; age; old people; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) my humble self
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
area; domain; territory; field; range; region
reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. new market); breaking new ground
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
work; business; company; study
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
new type; new style; new model; new strain (e.g. infectious disease)
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft
establishment (of a business); founding
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
exceptional; unusual; extraordinary; unprecedented; singular