shabby; mean; sorry; dingy
to be pretentious; to put on airs; to show off
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
acceptable; satisfactory; approval; being in favour; Pass (grade); Fair
to drug (someone, food, drink)
confections; sweets; candy; cake
knot; tying; bundle; lumping; conclusion; ending
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
most recent work (e.g. book, film, etc.); latest work; latest offering
one's (official) authority; power
abuse; misuse; misappropriation; using to excess
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
cake served with tea; teacake
to have a time-limit expire; to pass a deadline; to pass an expiration date
tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
expenses; expenditure; outgoings; outlays; costs
another thing; exception; special case
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
to say; to be pleased to say
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish
desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world
(your) judgment; discernment
to make oneself available (free)
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
joke; pun; jest; smartly dressed; stylish; fashion-conscious
man's looks; handsomeness; good-lookingness
cold (attitude); indifferent; unsympathetic; aloof
to collude (with); to conspire (with); to make friends with; to get along well with; to become intimate (with opposite sex); to establish a secret liaison (with)
pretending not to recognize (recognise); feigned ignorance
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth
sooner or later; in time; eventually
to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
to fight against; to oppose; to face
lesson; precept; teachings; moral