front; frontage; facade; main
w-sitting; duck sit; sitting position with both knees bent outward and buttocks flat on the floor
to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
(school) subject; curriculum; course; item; heading; entry
national language; Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan); one's native language; mother tongue; native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords and Chinese-derived words)
contemporary writing; modern text; modern Japanese writing; modern Japanese (as a school subject); literature written since the Meiji period
criticism; critique; review; comment; critical essay
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
world history; international history
to gather; to collect; to assemble
aloof; morose; (smelling) strongly; pungently; spiky (esp. of a hairstyle); sticking up straight (e.g. of plant stems)
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
to speak with restraint; to understate; to downplay; to put it mildly; to say the least
(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
light; bright; bright (colour); cheerful; bright; bright (future, prospects, etc.); rosy
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
physical law; laws of physics
to take (by force); to take away; to snatch; to absorb (one's attention); to fascinate; to captivate
to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable
air transportation; air transport
to be wet (with tears); to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
buzz; hum; shake (with vigor); shaking
to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (someone)
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to beg; to make a supplication; to see (something or someone of high status)
deity with extraordinary spiritual powers
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology
term; terminology; wording; choice of words; phraseology
(one's) figure; build; physique; style
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene
various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)
to jar; to creak; to grate