salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
stinginess; miserliness; shabby; cheap; petty; narrow-minded
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
pre-nuptial doubts; wedding blues
(fictional) character; character; personality; persona
blue (colour, color); sad; down (in the dumps)
lateness; tardiness; arriving late
moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc.); advancement; progress (of a disease); disease progression
programme; program; plans; arrangements
Catholic priest; abbe; reverend father; minister; padre
entrance; admission; entering
though; even if; whether ... or ...
citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
ramen restaurant; noodle restaurant
in comparison to; rather than
to repeat; to do something over again
hum (of a TV, radio, etc.)
rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet); fried egg; frying pan for making rolled eggs
to that extent; accordingly; that being the case; that state; that condition
a blink of time; (lit.) the time it takes to say "Ah!"
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
with a glitter; with a sparkle; brand new; shiny and new
firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys)
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
manuscript; copy; draft; notes; contribution
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
to settle (in a place); to settle down