lavish feast; splendid banquet; corporate largess; lavish hospitality
unreasonable request; asking for something unreasonable
rising; developing; emergent; burgeoning; new
mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between
good family; respectable family; decent family
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
having gone too far to turn back
gourmet food; delicious food; dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure
kindergartener; preschooler
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny
to move (house); to change residence
young and sweet; adorable; cute; pitiful; touching; pathetic
end; close; conclusion; termination
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
game of make-believe; child's play; pretend play
to frolic about; to mess around
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
senior high school student
soccer club (at a school); football club
disappointing (end, result, etc.); sad; miserable; tragic; fleeting; transient
descent; fall; drop; decline; downturn; subsidence
repeating a year (at school); staying in the same class for another year
university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to (be able to) make contact; to (be able to) get in touch
natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end; ghosting; unexplained and sudden ending of all communication and contact with another person
love affair; love relationship
demotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
start-up company; venture business
hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding
achievement; performance; results; work; contribution
(corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency; commercial failure; failed business
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
to crush to death; to press to death; to squeeze to death; to suppress (a laugh, one's anger, etc.); to stifle; to subdue (one's voice)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out