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worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst

4

good gracious; oh my

1

NEET (young person not in education, employment or training)

1

(corporate) restructuring; downsizing; laying off people

1

taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away

1

quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to

6

to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

1

trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention

2

to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing

1

Nishikajima Station

1

to look old; to get old

5

station building

4

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

1

slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

1

to come and go; to go back and forth

2

to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

1

the other side of a river; the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live

1

in deep black; in jet black

1

mountain range; mountain belt

1

light; illumination; glow; lamp; light

4

excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling

2

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

1

group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school

2

to cross (e.g. road); to traverse

1

bleak; chilly; dreary

1

to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)

1

rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

1

keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)

1

circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral

2

cities, towns and villages; municipalities

1

merger (of companies, towns, etc.); combination; union; amalgamation; consolidation; coalition

1

ordinance-designated city (administrative division for cities with a population of over 500,000)

1

interior; backwoods; hinterland; back regions

1

drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other

4

evacuation; withdrawal; revocation; repeal; retreat

1

ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines

1

spider

1

single track (railway); single line; solid wire; solid-core wire; single-strand wire

1

to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)

1

population; common talk

1

prefectural capital

1

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

2

understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy

4

(sense of) rivalry; competitiveness

1

to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up

1

rook

1

bridge

1

sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

1

passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing

2