small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
tight; close-fitting; tight (supply and demand); scarce; tight skirt; straight skirt
inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable
Nagano Prefecture (Chūbu area)
holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail
administration costs; administrative expenses; management costs
unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
suspicious; doubtful; dubious; questionable; fishy
to harm; to hurt; to fail to do; to do amiss; to almost do; to come close to doing
to enclose; to corral; to fence in; to pen in
ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies
witnessing; observing; sighting
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)
inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive
to accept; to receive (an application); to (be able to) take (food, medicine, etc.); to bear; to be affected by; to take damage from
point of reference; reference point
to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience
hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
snake; serpent; large snake
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled
translation; shift; parallel displacement
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
rustling of leaves; rustling of grass
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
walking briskly; determinedly
malicious; spiteful; vicious; shady and damp
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around (sexually; esp. of a male homosexual); having an active sex life
as a rule; in general; in principle; basically; essentially; fundamentally
height; acme; extremity; end; limit
comparatively; quite; rather; rate; ratio; percentage
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
stalker; (mechanical) stoker
in public; in company; in the presence of others
wherein; therein; thereinto
to resort to violence; to behave violently; to use force
to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)