midterm (mid-semester) test or exam
previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day
twelve o'clock; noon; midnight
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
shift; move; (work) shift; work schedule; gearshift; changing gears
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
to notice; to realize; to be attentive; to be scrupulous; to regain consciousness; to come to (one's senses)
3rd day of the month; three days
continuation; succession; series; continuous
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
fall; drop; descent; coming down
to continue; to keep up; to keep on; to continue ...; to keep on ...
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
just before; just prior to; right in front of; just in front of
time; hour; period; class
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
oh; right; I see; OK; gotcha
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively; extreme
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; (good) idea; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
at least; at most; (even) just
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.); quitting
the front; honest; upright; decent
working adult; full-fledged member of society
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to; all of a sudden
main hall; great hall; large hall; reception hall
to stand (up); to rise; to stand (in a position; of a person, tree, building, etc.); to be situated (in, on); to be (in difficulties, the lead, etc.); to put oneself (in a position or situation); to leave (to do something)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
beyond that point; after that