incident; affair; happening; event
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
likability; favorability; popularity
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
sympathy; empathy; response
living thing; living creature; animal; life
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)
group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
disorderly; messy; absurd; unreasonable; very; extremely
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid
one's business; reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha; bargain; discount; (arch.) money paid to a prostitute or geisha
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
elementary and middle schools
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year); falling short of the standard; not making the grade
what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain
examination; quiz; test; tryout; rehearsal (in filming)
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
also known as; also called
idly; lazily; aimlessly; evasively; elusively; vaguely
to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
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
to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective
taking an examination (esp. school and university entrance)
preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard