university professor; college professor
a particular; a certain; that kind of; such a
duty; function; office; mission; task; role
businessperson; businessman; businesswoman; entrepreneur; captain of industry
influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well
to incline toward; to slant; to go down (sun, moon); to sink; to decline; to wane
to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)
arrest; apprehension; capture
mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
match fixing; put-up job; fixed game
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
underworld; underside of society
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
club; fraternity; sorority; clubhouse
hostess (of a party, event, etc.); hostess (at a bar, club, etc.); female host (of a TV or radio show)
to incur someone's enmity
formal; official; regular; proper; legal; due (formalities)
marital relationship; marital relations
remainder; remnant; the rest; what is left; balance; leftovers
intelligence quotient; IQ
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. lie); specious; seemingly truthful
to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour
unreliable; undependable; untrustworthy; not to be counted on
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
IQ; intelligence quotient
roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique
genius; prodigy; natural gift
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data)
so-and-so; who?; which people?
truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith
to spread; to be propagated