alarm bell; fire bell; warning; wake-up call
meeting; greeting; welcome
talking while standing; standing around talking
to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in
moment by moment; hour by hour
to volunteer; to undertake a challenge
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
cooperation; coordination; link
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
useless; vain; aimless; idle
spreading around (news, etc.); talking about widely; noising about; circulating
to be weary; to be worn out; to be fed up (with); to be sick of; to be dejected; to be dispirited
bowstring; string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument; chord; hypotenuse
retention; maintenance; preservation
preparation; arrangements
flash (of light); glint; schiller
to avert one's eyes; to avoid looking straight at something; to cover one's eyes
stupid girl; stupid woman
to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
to take someone's life; to kill someone
deformity; distortion; disability; word written at the end of a letter
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
to live up to expectations; to meet expectations
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
polite; courteous; hospitable
ghostly, beautiful woman; ghost of a beautiful woman
left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable
principal occupation; core business
child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal