candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination
beginning of the year; early in the New Year
careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
master; teacher; stable master
one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game
when; how soon; how long until
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
address (e.g. of house); residence; domicile
New Year's Eve; December 31
ahead; before; the future
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
results; record; grades; marks
bright; intelligent; clever; smart
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
travel; trip; journey; excursion; tour
part-time employer; place where one works part-time
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11
to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
to the last; persistency; thoroughness
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
doing whatever one pleases
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself
cup (drinking vessel, measure, brassiere, prize, etc.)
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
chest; breast; breasts; bosom; heart; lungs; stomach
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe