inspection; audit; judgement; judgment
parliamentary investigation rights
House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution); House of Lords (UK)
to hit a nerve; to go for the throat; to touch a sore spot
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
secrecy; highly classified information
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
please come (and visit us); please come (to our shop)
by sheer strength; by brute force
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
physical evidence; material evidence
to judge; to decide; to sit in judgement; to try
the one thing that is well-remembered
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
one way or the other; either way
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
melancholy; gloom; depression
expression; look; countenance; face
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
to worry (about); to fret (over); to be anxious
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
resistance (movement); popular resistance against a military invasion (esp. of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
ignoring; disregarding; taking no notice of; refusing to comment on; turning a deaf ear to
emergency; accident; rare possibility; unexpected occurrence
negotiations; discussions; connection
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!
to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
surrender (to the authorities); giving oneself up; turning oneself in
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
ruins (of a building, town, etc.); remains
robust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy
(wearing) low over one's eyes