year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
stretch; tension; resilience; springiness; will-power; pluck
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
mystery; mysteriousness; secret
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
experienced person; person who has had a particular experience
clearing one's throat; cough
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
to walk with; to make someone tag along; to carry around (esp. a child); to carry about
educational institution; school; academy; campus
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
applicant; candidate; person interested in doing something; person wanting to do something; interested party; volunteer
entry to school or university; matriculation; enrolment (in university, etc.) (enrollment)
military force; military strength
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
levying; requisitioning; compulsory enlistment; recruitment; conscription
to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo
ostensible (surface) reason
spirit of self-reliance; feeling of independence
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
generation; the world; the age
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
opinion; point of view; visual point
system; institution; organization; organisation
ordinary citizen; the general public
older brother and younger sister
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
companion; partner; spouse
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
to finish; to get it over with; to settle; to pay back; to get along (without something); to make do with (without)
to become pale; to turn pale
to arrive (at one's destination); to reach; to come to a head; to reach a conclusion; to culminate (in)