medium; mediocrity; average
increasing the number of staff; hiring more people
small quantity; small amount; narrowmindedness
to allow; to enable; to make possible; to make feasible; to permit
laying the groundwork; behind-the-scenes maneuvering; consensus-building process; digging around the roots of a tree (before transplanting)
social; societal; societary
battle formation; lineup (e.g. for a game)
mobilization; mobilisation
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
offensive (movement); aggression
to become better; to improve
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
freezing (e.g. water); freezing (prices, wages, assets, etc.); moratorium; suspension (e.g. investment)
rational; reasonable; logical
to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)
medicine; agent; (chemical) substance; drug; dose
group; bunch; crowd; group
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
strong pressure; heavy pressure
underground space; subterranean space; subterranea
way of speaking; profession
construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
consecutive; continuous; successive
rank (of troops); file; column; formation
horn (instrument; made of animal horn); bugle; hunting horn
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
forward inclination (of the body); bending forward; anteversion
to trail (of smoke, clouds, etc.); to hang (of mist, haze, etc.); to lie (over); to linger; to flow (e.g. of hair in the wind)
imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective
using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period); simple paper mask
scanning (e.g. TV); traversal
to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double
sound of something falling
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion