condominium (usu. mid or high-rise); apartment building; apartment house; block of flats; apartment; flat
prawn; shrimp; lobster; crayfish
spine; backbone; spinal column
prudish; strait-laced; boring; square
broadcasting station; broadcaster
to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set; to expect; to hope for; to resolve (to do); to decide upon
snow shoveling (shovelling); snow clearing; snow removal; snow shovel; snow plow; snow plough
to fall and pile up (e.g. snow); to lie thick
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
calculating; mercenary; selfish; self-interested
to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)
charge (of something); matter in one's charge; (one's) assignment; (one's) job
leather boots; rubber boots; wellingtons; wellies; long boots; high boots
extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd
to start work (on); to undertake; to start committing a crime; embarkation; launch
to scrape out; to rake out (e.g. ashes); to bail out (e.g. water)
with all one's strength; with all one's might
individual differences; personal equation
crunch crunch; thud thud; tramp tramp
mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house; snow hut
whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering
light-emitting diode; LED
love problems; problem related to love
to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures
sensitive; susceptible; emotional; impressionable; sentimental
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); disposal (e.g. weaponry); annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling)
underlying cause; indirect cause; remote cause
childish; child-like; innocent; naive
knowingly or unknowingly; with or without someone's knowledge
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
break (in the weather, esp. rain or snow); interval of clear weather; patch of blue sky; (arch.) period of serenity
internal organs; viscera; intestines
to trace back to (the origins of something)
to offer (a suggestion, etc.); to propose (an idea, etc.); to approach with (a proposal, etc.)