enjoyable; fun; pleasant; happy; delightful
all; entire; whole; altogether
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
to choose; to select; to pick (out)
no matter what; whatever happens; in any situation; rain or shine
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
palm (of one's hand); skill; (in one's) grip; (under one's) control; one's (concealed) intentions; one's cards
trump; trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
to lose (something); to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention; motive
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
temporary staff recruitment agency; employment agency
I'm off (and will be back later); see you later; to go (and then come back)
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
health-related; health (problem, reasons, etc.); in terms of health; from a health standpoint; for one's health
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
bento; Japanese box lunch
shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
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)
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference
Hello Work (official nickname for the Public Employment Security Office)
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
practical problem; practical matter
victim; injured party; sufferer
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
because of; owing to; due to
base; basis; bedrock; platform
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
function; facility; faculty; feature
even; (if) only; just; besides; on top of that
company president; manager; director
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)