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Wordpopular  search-only kanji form  JLPT N1  usually written using kana alone  conjunction 

• or, otherwise

Wordpopular  adverb 

• in some cases, sometimes, on occasions

Wordexpression 

• the more I think about it, the more one thinks about it

WordJLPT N2  conjunction 

• and yet, despite this, but even so, but even then, however, nevertheless, for all that, notwithstanding that

Wordexpression 

• either, whichever

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• a kind, a sort, a variety, a species
• of sorts, something of a, a sort of
• sort of, somewhat

Wordpopular  irregular okurigana  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic) 

• the head, the foremost, beginning, the very front

Wordpopular  expression 

• by any chance, (should) it happen (that), by some chance

Wordpopular  expression  adverb 

• rightly or wrongly, by all possible means, at all costs, at any cost, no matter what (happens), by fair means or foul

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  adverb 

• so to speak, so to call it, as it were