preeminence; supremacy; distinction; excellence
innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
to be too numerous; to be too much
third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
to recall; to remember; to recollect
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
to exclude; to leave out (of conversations, etc.); to freeze out; to send to Coventry
trauma (usu. psychological)
(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
to talk; to chat; to chatter
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; heedlessly; against one's better judgement (judgment)
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
continuation; succession; series
attached; belonging (to); included; enclosed; affiliated; annexed
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
until now; so far; up to the present
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
public (attention, recognition, etc.); social (standing, acceptance, etc.); worldly (fame, desires, etc.)
it seems so; that's what it looks like