predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
(one's) sleeping hours; hours of sleep
destination; recipient; addressee
social networking service; SNS; social media
screen name; username; handle
The Phantom of the Opera (musical, novel, film, etc.)
substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
thickly; heavily; richly; severely; strongly
fat (of meat); fatty meat
to heat; to heat up; to get excited; to get worked up; to get fired up
stinging (pain); smarting; tingling
walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel); lots of coins or jewels; cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving; large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.)
rare; uncommon; not often seen
pork-cutlet sandwich; tonkatsu sandwich
device; equipment; machinery; apparatus
condition of a patient; state of a disease; pathology
serious; severe; grave; acute
advice; counsel; suggestion; tip; hint
compilation (esp. dictionary, history, law code); editing
separate; respective; different
very ordinary; mediocre; all-too-common; quite commonplace
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
apathy; lassitude; lethargy; languor
best; extra-fine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy)
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
to work hard; to sweat; to wash off one's sweat
natto (fermented soybeans)
student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker
scholarly ability; scholarship; knowledge; literary ability
sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water)
fallen leaves; leaf litter; leaf fall; dropping leaves; deciduous
munching; crunching; scratching (an itch)
acting as a foster parent; caring for another's child; foster parent
mushrooming; mushroom picking; mushroom gathering
established practice; custom