family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
to gain fame; to make one's name
worth; merit; value; good point; strong point; redeeming feature
on the way; as one goes; in the future; someday; eventually
tentative decision; unofficial offer (esp. job offer); informal offer
pastime; hobby; favorite amusement; dissipation; debauchery; loose living
charisma (i.e. attractiveness, charm); charisma (i.e. divinely conferred power or talent); charism; charismatic person; someone famous (usu. for their talent); celebrity
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
plural; multiple; plural (number)
management; administration; operation
elder; senior; senior monk; dean; presbyter
decorations; offerings; mere window dressing
unfairness; injustice; partiality
condition; state (of health); appearance
unbearable; intolerable; insufferable
steady; sound; stable; safe (e.g. business); reliable; trustworthy
reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être; ikigai
increase in production; production increase
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
inveiglement; cajolement; wheedling; enticement
abundant; ample; plentiful; lustrous; glossy
to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what someone feels (using one's intuition)
free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling
difficult problem; challenge
the three Rs; reading, writing and arithmetic
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
trial product; prototype model
manners; etiquette; polite behaviour
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive
man; male; masculine gender
atrocious; heinous; fiendish; brutal; vicious
relief; mitigation; alleviation; relaxation (of restrictions, tensions, etc.); easing; softening
love of learning; desire to learn; passion for knowledge
significant; useful; meaningful; worthwhile; valuable; of interest
thinking back now; looking back