unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
tenth day of the month; ten days
eastern part; the east (of a region)
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
general; admiral; head; chief; old chap; mate
office (e.g. the Oval Office)
reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
plan; protocol; manifest; program
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
sanity; consciousness; soberness
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
tissue paper; toilet paper
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
calmness; composure; coolness; serenity; presence of mind
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)