to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with
alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)
playboy; libertine; (professional) gambler; person without a steady job; idler
entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
one's speciality; one's forte; one's strong point
installation (esp. software)
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
teaching the basics; initiation; introduction
Dokachin the Primitive Boy
intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia
decapitation; beheading; firings; dismissals; small samurai sword used for decapitation
spectator; sightseer; onlooker
bento; Japanese box lunch
expected to arrive (occur) in the near future
to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)
screw; key (of a clock, watch, etc.); spring (of a clock, watch, etc.)
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
resuscitation; regeneration; reformation; rehabilitation; playback; regeneration (sound, etc.)
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
how long; how far; how much
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
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
finally; at last; ultimately; in the end
to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; (lit.) to grab by the tail
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
stillness; silence; hush; calm; serenity
extempore; impromptu; improvised; ad-lib; off-the-cuff; instant