mass communication; mass media
softly; gently; stealthily; secretly; to leave alone; to leave as it is
newcomer; initiate; rookie
humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits
indeed; really; truly; very much
house; one's house; one's home; one's family
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
to accept; to receive; to agree
my; one's own; personal; privately owned
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
flathead (esp. the bartailed flathead, Platycephalus indicus)
tearing; ripping; crunching; munching; stiff; starchy; (working) hard
piece of evidence; evidence
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
schoolchild without lunch
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
marriage fraud; fake marriage
yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game
it's no joke; gimme a break!
to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid
to revive; to come to oneself; to be restored to life
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
thaw; defrosting; decompression (e.g. of a file); unpacking; extracting
Neptune (Roman god); Neptune (planet)
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted
this is why; this means; it is the case that
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
cell; cell (in an organization, esp. a communist party)
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
split; division; break up
clear; clearing (a bar, hurdle, etc.); overcoming; getting through; clearing (the ball); clearing (e.g. a checked box)
procedure; process; proceedings; formalities