attendance; presence; appearance
Excellent (grade); A; superiority; excellence; gentle; graceful
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect
literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes
too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds); too-good-to-be-true stories
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
instead; but (on the other hand)
group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)
criterion (criteria) for selection
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to apply (a rule); to be applicable; to come under (a category); to fulfill; to hold true
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
(young) person subsisting on part-time work; person whose livelihood is provided by part-time work
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
department of a university; undergraduate (course, program, etc.)
one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good; lacking
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
two parts; two copies; the second part
being enrolled (at a school); being registered; being a member (of a team, organization, etc.)
general classification; broad categorization
senior high school; high school
society; public; community; social studies
to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)
finding employment; getting a job
retirement; retiring (from a race, match, etc.); dropping out
skirt (of a kimono); hem (of a kimono)
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated
on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
harmonious; peaceful; congenial; friendly; happy
to cross; to intersect; to associate with; to mingle with; to have a sexual relationship; to copulate
each (person); everyone; individual; respective
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from