good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
plot (of a story); plotting (a graph)
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
hey!; excuse me!; wait a moment
proposal; proposition; suggestion
subtle; delicate; difficult; complex; doubtful; questionable
no, not like that (but like this)
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
as (for); for; in the capacity of
stale; hackneyed; cliched
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
editor (in publishing, etc.)
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
bed; berth; crib; cot; kip; bedroom
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
journal; magazine; periodical
sending a manuscript to the printer; receiving a manuscript from the author
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
to get tired out; to be exhausted
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to