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corridor; hallway; passageway

1

friend; acquaintance

1

to fade; to become dim

1

I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...

2

trigger (of a gun, etc.); trigger (for something); immediate cause

1

public telephone; pay phone

1

establishment; institution; installation (of a machine or equipment)

1

(telephone) receiver

6

telephone card

1

Kanagawa (prefecture)

1

(one's parents') home

1

to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)

5

counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

3

younger sister

3

(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad

6

occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom

5

hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)

1

to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)

2

high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous

1

the one absolute truth; the one reality

2

July; seventh month of the lunar calendar

1

to pass (of time); to elapse

3

well, I must admit ...

1

I'll be back

1

sensible; clever; smart; decent; tasteful

1

local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift

1

appearance; outward show

1

to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss

4

cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike

1

to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

2

good performance; good work; great success

1

jest; joke; funny story

8

typhoon; hurricane

1

outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state

1

direct hit

1

(sound of) laughter; laughing voice

1

father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy

1

mother; wife

1

cold

4

to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

3

being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other

1

(telephone) transmitter; mouthpiece

1

love of cleanliness; liking to keep things clean; tidiness (of people); neatness

1

still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...

1

to get between; to be caught in

1

sash; sliding window frame (esp. metal)

1

think

1

nature; property; disposition

1

to be in disorder; to lie scattered around

1

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

1