resourcefulness; ability (esp. to earn a living); dependability; reliability
meeting; rendezvous; meeting for the first time; coming across; confluence
clerical desk; office desk
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
delicately; weakly; gently; supplely
one's original intention; one's initial enthusiasm; inexperience; naivety; greenness
manly; masculine; like a man
first move (in shogi, go, etc.); beginning; start
to give no leeway; to press (for an answer, etc.); to shower (questions on someone)
expert; skillful person; good move (in shogi, go, etc.); clever move
heavy-hearted; depressed; dispirited; (feeling) down; feeling reluctant (to do)
pot (esp. teapot, coffee pot); vacuum bottle; thermos flask
to burn; to scorch; to char; to singe
to tease; to irritate; to tantalize; to keep (someone) in suspense
greeting the New Year (on New Year's Eve); welcoming the New Year
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
blank period; window period; interregnum
to be greedy; to devour greedily
promoting; increase; advance
to insert; to put in; to send in (to a prisoner; e.g. clothes, books); to deliver (food, refreshments, etc. to workers); to supply
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin
woman's heart; female instincts or psychology
fortune; fate; chance; coincidence; (stroke of) luck
perfection; thoroughness; consummation
to untangle; to untwine; to get back together (with a former partner)
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; perversion (esp. sexual)
they; those guys; those fellows
will not do; do not; does not
energy; vigour; vigor; liveliness; spirit; life
(period of) a year; during the era (of)
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
route (bus, train, air, etc.); line; line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course
return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression
leadership; initiative; spearhead