ball; ball (pitch delivered outside the strike zone); board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
scene; sight; scenario; setting
song lyrics; words of a song; libretto
to come to mind; to pop into one's head
stage (of a theatre, concert hall, etc.); stage performance; stage production; setting (of a story); scene; sphere (of activity)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
black comedy; dark comedy
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
faint memory; vague memory; dim memory; vague recollection
large-scale operation; large-scale campaign; major mission
fashion; fad; vogue; prevalence (e.g. of a disease)
to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly; actually
comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
preparatory phase; preparatory period
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
to think of; to give one's thought to
background knowledge; prerequisite knowledge
to write in more information; to add (a paragraph, more lines, etc.); to tack on
medicine; medical science
technical book; specialized book; treatise
state of mind; mentality; psychology
university hospital; teaching hospital
reportage; report; reporting
counter for books; volume
elementary; basic; rudimentary
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; indeed; really
manna from heaven; an oasis in the desert; godsend; good fortune when one needed it most; meeting a good Samaritan in one's hour of need; (lit.) (meeting) Buddha in hell
(a) Buddha; deceased person
to return evil for good; to return a favor with spite
(all) through (e.g. the night); throughout (e.g. the year); within (e.g. the week); in the course of (e.g. today); all over; throughout (e.g. the world)
lack of knowledge; lack of understanding
idleness; lack of application; lazy study habits