(the one) before, formerly, ago / the former, the previous

wide, broad (especially more so than normal) / large scale, drastic, major, substantial

a specific measure used for traditional Japanese textiles: full-breadth cloth, roughly 72 cm wide, twice the width of a 小幅 (kohaba) measure

improvement, an action taken to improve / improvement, a spontaneous change for the better

(transitive) to improve, to make better / (intransitive) for something to improve on its own

betterment, improvement, amelioration

contest, comparison, competition

compare, contrast

results, score, achievements, performance, record, grades

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend