humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits
beautiful; lovely; heartwarming; beautiful
worthless; insignificant; unimportant; poor; miserable; wretched
to make a success in life
large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)
to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
disrespect; irreverence; impiety; blasphemy; profanity
to attack; to assault; to assail
delineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
custom; convention; common practice; (arch.) becoming accustomed (to)
however; having said that; but
confections; sweets; candy; cake
registration; accession; register; entry; record
to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it
inquiry; enquiry; query; reference
subordination; dependency
connection; link; relationship
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
pleased to make your acquaintance
shortish; rather short; somewhat short
excessive self-consciousness; excessively self-conscious person
even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
in succession; one after another
to weigh on one's mind; to be worried about (something)
novice; beginner; starting to run; running off; running away
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to cut up; to cleave; to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something; (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
awareness of the issues; (having a) critical mind; concerns
zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)