method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
to recall; to remember; to recollect
prize-winner; recipient (of a prize, award, etc.)
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
successive generations; successive emperors
far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead
to suit; to match; to become; to be like
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling, atmosphere, etc.); serious; gloomy
how many people; a number of people
double; twice (as much); twofold
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
casual speech; peer language; informal language
frank; candid; outspoken; unreserved
willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
shallows; shoal; rapids; current; position; place
punishment; spanking; smacking; chastisement; scolding
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky); to lack common sense; to be extremely surprised (by)
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
manners; courtesy; etiquette
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
work (e.g. of art); production; harvest; cultivation; technique
revising (e.g. manuscript); rewriting; revised manuscript
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)