younger brother; little brother; brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) apprentice
staff; staff member; stuffing (in Western cuisine); filling; stuff; materials
recommendation; referral; endorsement
bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
benefactor; patron; person to whom one owes a great deal; person to whom one is (deeply) indebted
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
handsome young man; Adonis
various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)
refrigerator; cold; cool; cold sake
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
to become sulky; to become irresponsible (due to disgruntlement)
cross; crossing; intersecting; cross (soccer)
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
pose; pose; posturing; pause; rest
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
very fast; in a twinkle; before one's eyes
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
principle; theory; fundamental truth
memory (of having seen something or someone before); remembrance; recollection; recognition
(talent) scout; recruiter; scouting; headhunting; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts
to assort; to classify; to journalize (in accounting); to journalise
to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (vegetables, treasure, etc.); to mine (coal, ore, etc.); to top
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
to be torn off; to come off
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
tolerance; broad-mindedness
to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down
this occasion; at this time; now
greeting; a fine thing to say
to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want
to lay the blame on; to put the fault on
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards