dictionary;  lexicon; (arch.)  letter of resignation
 notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.);  wording;  choice of language;  phraseology
 resignation (from a position)
 (bowing and) greeting; (arch.)  declining; (arch.)  refusing
 passing away;  death;  dying words;  death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
 interpreter (esp. of Dutch and Chinese during the Edo period);  interpretation;  court interpreter
 admonitory speech (e.g. to students);  words of admonition
 flowery language;  pretty words
 farewell address;  parting words
 parting (farewell) address
 particle (in Japanese);  auxiliary word (in Japanese; particles and auxiliary verbs);  auxiliary character (in kanbun)
 words of praise;  encomium
 one's speech and appearance
 prefatory words;  epigraph
 dictionaries (and similar books)
 falsehood;  syntactic expletive
 message of condolence;  memorial address
 commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)
 classifier (in Japanese and Chinese linguistics)
 being ready to drink sake by the keg;  drinking like a fish