government worker; public servant; civil servant
business conditions; the market; good (economic) times; prosperity; liveliness; energy
difficulty of finding employment (due to a job shortage)
advance warning; previous notice; announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression
student in a higher grade; upperclassman
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
to feel like; to feel inclined to do
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
leaving hospital; discharge from hospital
to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering
bento; Japanese box lunch
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
(coming to an) agreement; consent; mutual understanding; accord; consensus
duty; obligation; responsibility
day by day; by the day; (arch.) daily; (arch.) every day
to continue to increase; to continue to mount
parting gift; remembrance; aftereffect
to hand over; to surrender
to die; to ascend to heaven
dead branch (or twig, etc.); withered branch
left in a state of neglect; left to go to ruin; left to run wild (e.g. of a garden)
shutting tightly; making airtight; sealing hermetically
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
to ward off; to brush away; to fling off; to drive away
identifiable; personalized
then; in that case; considering; if that is the case; if so
thaw; defrosting; decompression (e.g. of a file); unpacking; extracting
brain waves; electroencephalogram; EEG
one's heart rate; pulse rate
normalcy; normality; normal