oh!; ah!; oh dear!; good grief!; dear me!; thank God!
semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy
kitchen door; back door; service door; host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room
crucible; melting pot; melting pot (of cultures, ideas, etc.); state of ecstasy; state of fevered excitement
vacant house; unoccupied house
to stand (still) a while; to loiter; to stop
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
hesitation; hindrance; washroom
big and round (eyes, shaven head, etc.)
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
to charge; to rush; to assault; to flood a company, organization etc. with phone complaints (usu. loosely organized on anonymous online message boards)
to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake
to lay down; to wear (a sword, etc.) at one's side
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
(department) store; (department) stores
lonely; dreary; desolate; few; scarce; sparse
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
pulverization; pulverisation; smashing; demolishing
(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains
street; quarter; district; area
accumulation; pile; heap; sedimentation
belief; faith; conviction
second (unit of time); arc second
(open) a little; slightly; narrowly; (cut) finely; thinly
with a click; with a snap; ornamental clip (hair, obi, etc.)
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless