article; news story; report; account
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
questionnaire; survey; poll
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly
midterm (mid-semester) test or exam
self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode
to collect; to assemble; to gather
to incline one's head to the side (in doubt); to tilt one's head to the side (in confusion); to be puzzled
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
of course; certainly; naturally
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
first place; first rank; unit's position; Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
to be surprised; to be astonished
Tsugaru Dialect (Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture)
Aomori prefecture (Tōhoku area)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
Aomori (city, prefecture)
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...