unpleasant feelings (e.g. hatred, disgust, revulsion, fear)
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
whim; vagary; capriciousness; eccentricity
impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag
preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery
to squeeze out; to wring out
accepting; consenting; agreeing; submission; compliance; agreement
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
audience (with a person of high standing); eye-level
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
crazy; mad; devoid of reason
giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
catch; catching; catch; shop tout; puller-in; catching (in swimming and boating); catching the water
to take a long hard look at; to look (someone) full in the face
(for) self-defense; (for) self-protection
otherwise; if not; or else
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
self control; self restraint
commuter town; bedroom community; dormitory town
the same as it was long ago; unchanged; traditional
agricultural community; farm village; rural
rising; developing; emergent; burgeoning; new
existing alongside (each other); mixture; intermingling
farmer; farming family; farmhouse
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
fields (of rice and other crops)
one's (own) house; one's (own) home
(raised) footpath between rice fields; ridge between rice fields
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
to take (a photo); to record (video, audio, etc.); to make (a film)
underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
warp; curvature; curve; arch