town; city; municipal; urban
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
to be crowded; to be packed; to be jammed
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
thousands; several thousand
front entrance; front door
long ago; a long time ago; already
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
laws and ordinances; acts (of parliament, congress, etc.)
fixed fitting (esp. window)
performance of one's official duties
substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)
representation; agency; proxy; deputy; agent; attorney
bent back; hunchback; stoop
to bend; to warp; to yield; to be supple (e.g. bamboo, body); to be flexible; to be pliant
to hang oneself; to strangle oneself
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
cross-examination; close questioning; demanding an explanation
questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
peremptorily; willy-nilly; forcibly
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
to gouge; to hollow out; to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain; to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
repetition; iteration; recursion; recurrence; recapitulation
farce; charade; person who serves tea; short and humorous improvised sketch (originating from Edo-era kabuki)
bygones; the past; past event
real intention; true motive; true will; original intention; original purpose; original hope
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
to resonate emotionally (with one); to strike home (words, etc.); (lit.) to stab in the chest
to forget to say; to forget to mention
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
normalcy; normality; normal
to narrow; to reduce; to contract