check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
outline; summary; gist; basic points
somehow or other; for some reason or another
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
ago; since; before; previous
plan; scheme; (payment) plan; package; deal
inhabitant; resident; citizen; population
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
slipping out (a chuckle, giggle); unintentionally (letting out a quiet laugh)
private first-class (army); airman first class (air force); lance corporal (US Marines; Commonwealth military); seaman (navy)
portrait photo; mug shot; face shot; photograph of a person's face
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
person who has rendered distinguished service
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
here and there; in places
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
leaving a matter to chance
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even