floor; dance floor; sales floor; floor (of a building); storey
conference room; council room
to discuss; to talk together
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
to play a central role; to take a leading part
eight; eight years of age; two o'clock (old time system)
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
(present) head of a family
valley; ravine; gorge; canyon
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
good family; respectable family; decent family
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects; the eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian period
empty seat; unoccupied seat; vacancy; vacant post
reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
brush tip; first on a list; head; chief
representation; agency; proxy; proxy; agent; representative
seven-to-three ratio; 70-30 split; 70-30 hair part; hairstyle with hair parted in a 70-30 ratio
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
mouth; lips; shape of the mouth; near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance
with a friendly grin; smilingly
gentle; mild; meek; tender
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman
originally; primarily; essentially; intrinsically; proper; rightful
father; father (e.g. of a discipline); pioneer (e.g. of field of research); God; Father
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane