start; commencement; beginning; initiation
someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)
no matter what; whatever you say; in the end; after all
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
yes; sure; gotcha; sycophantically; servilely; fawningly
bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
being startled; getting a shock
piping hot; scalding; madly in love; passionately in love
taking on one's share (e.g. of work); dividing (work, expenses, etc.) between; apportionment; allotment; allocation; assignment
every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)
mental; spiritual; emotional
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
minimum; lowest; minimal; least
those present; attendance
register of names; list of names; roll; register; roster
successively; one after another
to spring; to bound; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to pay handsomely; to splurge
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
nasty; mean; heartless; inconsiderate; selfish
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
even though; despite; when
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
major label debut (recording)
light (e.g. aircraft, truck); light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); kei car
attending (school, college, etc.); being enrolled; being a student
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be