means of communication; media of communication; organ of communication; tool of communication
document circulated to staff to obtain approval (for a decision, policy, etc.)
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
to put into the mouth; to eat
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining; immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering
chlorinated lime; calcium hypochlorite; chloride of lime; bleaching powder
luxury grocery item (e.g. alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco); indulgence; something consumed for taste or stimulant effect rather than nourishment
of all things (days, etc.)
physiological phenomenon; physiological response
infectious disease; infection
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
joining a company; getting a job with a company; entering a company
entering the barracks; enlistment
something wrong; accident; change; abnormality; aberration
exceptional; unusual; special; especially; exceptionally; unusually
Japan and Russia; Russo-Japanese
if possible; preferably; if circumstances allow
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
in the end; on top of that
removing a bad taste; cleansing one's palate; palate cleanser; intermezzo; dish or beverage to cleanse one's palate between dishes of a meal
mint (e.g. peppermint, spearmint, etc.); Japanese peppermint (Mentha arvensis var. piperascens)
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
to be preeminent; to be outstanding
suffocation; choking; asphyxia
writing down from other written material; writing kanji text from hiragana; transcription (of spoken material); dictation
alphabet; ABCs; the ABCs (of); basics; activity-based costing; ABC
study; learning; tutorial
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
nervousness; oversensitivity
daytime; during the day; Japan and China
covert action; covert operations