specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
cinch; pushover; easy matter; light snack; cake served with tea
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
to be inclined to do; to be willing to do
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
department store; department
bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building
crank call; prank call; nuisance call
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
lunch; noon; midday; daytime; waking up; getting up
absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity (philosophy)
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
double-dealing; double tongue; going back on what one has said; repeating oneself
topic; subject; much talked about; topical; in the news
to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected
time; season; period; phase; stage
wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I
cannot bring oneself (to do); unable to bear (e.g. seeing)
to strike (gold, oil, etc.); to find (e.g. buried treasure); to dig up
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
hardware store; DIY store; home improvement retailer
canned food; tinned food; confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space
collecting together and buying; doing a big shop
use; utilization; utilisation; application
baby spotted turtle; immature Japanese pond turtle; young Japanese terrapin
(move) slowly (e.g. walk); sluggishly; stolidly; ploddingly; heavily
water tank; cistern; fish tank; aquarium
to take measures (in face of events being anticipated); to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together
meeting place; rendezvous (point); roll-call (assembly) point; appointed (designated) place
jostling; milling about; crush; packed with (activities, products, etc.); teeming with; chock-full of
to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress
to get up (from sitting); to stand up; to (finally) start to do something; to get off one's backside; to take action
seasonal change of clothing; changing one's dress for the season; renovation; facelift; redesign
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
real intention; true motive; true will; original intention; original purpose; original hope
half-hearted reply; vague answer; reluctant answer