scholarly ability; scholarship; knowledge; literary ability
second; secondary; quadratic (function, equation, etc.); second-order; fictional (in relation to anime, manga, etc.); drawn
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate); extraction; pulling out
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
to make a vow; to take an oath
to half-rise to one's feet
with a thump; (hanging) straight down
rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks (drink)
reconciliation; amicable settlement; court-mediated settlement; (arch.) translation of a foreign language into Japanese
lively; energetic; vigorously (jumping, flopping, etc.); piercing (e.g. sound); penetrating
just past noon; afternoon
legend; folklore; tradition
portrait photo; mug shot; face shot; photograph of a person's face
notes; comment; remark; annotation
PS; postscript; appending; addition (esp. of data, information)
to exchange; to swap; to barter; to replace; to substitute
(all) important positions; every strategic point; each key post; (all) important parts; every important point
twist; spin; ingenuity; sophistication (e.g. of writing style); monetary offering (or gift) wrapped in paper; twisting throw
change of mobile phone (without changing carrier or phone number); model upgrade
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
narrow (blade); slender (figure, build); thin
doctrine; rule; principle; -ism
old enemy; longtime enemy; arch-enemy; traditional rival; longstanding foe
early morning; early hours; early in the morning
multitasking; multitasking (person); simultaneous (activity); concurrent
classified document; confidential document
to finish reading; to read through
sobriety; soberness; sober face
coffee cup; spinning teacups (amusement ride)
glutinous rice steamed with red beans or some other ingredient; (arch.) trickery; (arch.) deception
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession
weariness; fatigue; languor; boredom; tedium; ennui
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)