face; honour; honor; appearance; look
opportunity; chance; time; occasion
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding; approval; consent
city centre (esp. of Tokyo); heart of a city; downtown area
udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles
barn (for storage); shed; outbuilding
fine white noodles served flowing in a small flume
Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
to take care doing something; to be prudent; to take no chances; to play it safe
absence due to illness; sick leave
inheritance; succession; share-alike; inheritance
to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order
offender; criminal; culprit
approximate (number); rough (calculation); sloppy; lackadaisical; crude
to make sure of the truth
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
to neglect; to leave undone; to lay aside
degree (of something); greatness or smallness (of something); quantity; number; amount; size
theory; standard procedure; common strategy; established tactics
to have an eye on; to zero in on
the earth below; the ground below; this world (as opposed to heaven)
(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; eccentricity; person with unusual tastes; eccentric; oddball
following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with
minute; detailed; careful; scrupulous; thorough
as you see; as you can see; in accordance with what you see
suspension of business; temporary closure (of a store, school, etc.); shutdown; holiday
training (esp. in-service); induction course
highly unpredictable; touch and go
downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently
having serious consequences; costing dearly; cannot get away with it; for free; for nothing; easily
to close down a business; to shut a business
the height of folly; sheer stupidity
look like; sound like; seem like; savor of; smack of
background knowledge; prerequisite knowledge