underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily
to notify; to advise; (arch.) to know; (arch.) to reign; (arch.) to govern (a country)
justice; right; righteousness; correct meaning; correct explanation
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat; home page (of a website)
manager; controller; chief treasurer; boss (of a gambling den)
Your Highness; His Highness; Her Highness
to some extent; to a certain extent
preparations; preliminary arrangements; spade work; mise en place; groundwork
nobility; aristocracy; peerage
ancient times; prehistoric times; the distant past; a very long time ago
throat; important part; vital area
strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious
smith; blacksmith; small crowbar for extracting nails; cat's paw
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
to choose one's words (with care); to be careful with one's words
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
to serve as a reference; to provide useful information; to be helpful; to be informative; to be instructive
to act up (machine); to go out of tune (instrument); to not work right; to be knocked off stride; to lose one's bearings; to lose one's presence of mind
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
another world (esp. in fiction); otherworld; parallel universe; different-dimension world; isekai
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
loss; waste (e.g. of time); feeling of loss; Los Angeles; L.A.
passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy
as if ...; as if to say ...; as though ...
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
how should I know?; don't ask me
succession to another's professional name
grandfather; male senior-citizen
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
reputation; (public) estimation; rumour; rumor; fame; notoriety
to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
ordinary people; common folk; general masses; man in the street; populace at large
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
the present age; these days; (present) head of the family
successive generations; successive emperors
to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible