serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
chest; breast; breasts; bosom; heart; lungs; stomach
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
management; managerial position; administrative post; person in a managerial position
disqualification; elimination; incapacity; being unfit for one's role; being a failure
to resolve; to make up one's mind; to decide
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
concealment; suppression; hiding
absolutely; positively; decidedly
I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
scandal; deplorable event
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
spread; extension; influence; aftereffect; ripple
concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every
Not a word to anyone; Mum's the word
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning