to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
to draw water (e.g. from a river); to lead water to (e.g. a field, a pond); to supply water to; to irrigate
common carp (Cyprinus carpio); koi carp
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to damage
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
vice-chief; vice-director; assistant director; deputy manager
Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint
present (brought by a visitor); gift
main constituent; core; nucleus; subject (philosophical); protagonist
immediate reply; quick answer; ready agreement
manuscript fee; payment for a piece of writing
to lead; to take the initiative; to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger); to be most essential
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
serialization; serialisation; serial story
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
to occupy; to hold; to account for; to make up; to take up
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
master; expert; mansion; large house; rich family; distinguished family
row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows
past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
bottle; jar; decanter; flagon; phial; vial
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
to count on; to expect; to put confidence in; to trust in; to depend on
having in mind; happening to know of; idea
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
having one's hands full; not having any room to do more; at the limit
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
interest (in something); enthusiasm