place; location; room; space; sumo tournament
mainly; primarily; mostly; largely; chiefly
to meet; to face someone; to co-star; to appear together; to be matched; to face against
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
unpleasant; awkward; embarrassing; uneasy
taking an examination (esp. for entrance to a school or university)
parent; parents; dealer; banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
narrowness; being cramped; being almost full
slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
time (for, to do); time (to finish a race, lap, etc.); time-out; thyme
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
right on the heels of yesterday; only yesterday
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
concentration (on a task); focusing one's attention; concentration (of population, buildings, power, etc.); centralization; within a collection of works
per-capita division; division according to the number of people
tea (esp. green or barley); tea break; teatime; tea ceremony
to carry; to transport; to come; to go; to use (a brush, chopsticks, etc.); to move
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
marriage fraud; fake marriage
arrest; apprehension; capture
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
accountability; being held accountable
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
by hook or by crook; by all possible means
to try to do; to attempt to do
penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)
to pass (of time); to elapse
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
de facto marriage; common-law marriage
application (of a rule, law, method, etc.)
how; in what way; how about
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; by the way
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
such a thing; something like that