contest; competition; struggle; scramble
to unfold; to unroll; to open
detective team; study group; club
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
to long for; to yearn after; to admire; to be attracted by
tremendous strength; (lit.) strength of a hundred people
storage room; storeroom; lumber room
large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting)
(providing) covering fire; supporting (backing up) someone (in a debate or argument)
writing implement; writing tool
to arrange (flowers); to plant
kind (of goods); brand; (taxonomical) form; breed; cultivar
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
rhyming game; play on words; pun
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
direction; orientation; suited to; suitable for; tendency; inclination
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
shall ...; to assume; to suppose
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.)
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise