crisis prevention; crisis avoidance
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
spirit; mind; nature; disposition; motivation; intention
first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; jab
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
indicates uncertainty or second hand nature of information quoted
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
facial expression; countenance; look; appearance; expression (vocal, etc.)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
if so; in that case; in that situation
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
finding employment; getting a job
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
pupil; student; schoolchild
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
plate (often as in "tectonic plate")
entry to school or university; matriculation; enrolment (in university, etc.) (enrollment)
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
number one; first; best; most; game; round
three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again
many; much; plenty; hardly
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly