presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
the defensive; passive attitude; passivity; the passive; passive voice; ukemi (the art of falling safely)
gender equality; equal rights for both sexes; equality of the sexes
society; public; community; social studies
resourcefulness; ability (esp. to earn a living); dependability; reliability
decoration; ornament; trimmings
slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic); banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour)
idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)
talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque
out of hand; uncontrollable; out of control; messy
in the future; another day; later
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
to get dressed up; to treat oneself
light; faint; pale; fleeting
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
transition; change; progress; passing (of time)
right-angled parallelepiped; cuboid; rectangular solid
strenuous exertion; spurt; splurge
hole; hole (in golf); (golf) cup; (electron) hole
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
that's too bad; too bad for you!
diet; losing weight by any method (e.g. exercise)
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)
don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
daytime; during the day; Japan and China
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
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
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)
decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts
pre-paid card for purchasing books; Tosho card; library book index card