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answering machine; answer phone

3

return; welcome home

1

slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late

2

chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air

1

cloth; fabric

2

to put on (coat, gown, etc.)

1

whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic

3

gooseflesh; goose pimples; goose bumps

1

very bottom; rock bottom

1

to drag in; to pull in

2

lateness; tardiness; arriving late

3

to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old

3

police; police officer; police station

6

intervention

1

silent phone call (form of harassment)

3

to send (something unsolicited); to send without the receiver's request

1

direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

1

to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)

3

present; gift

2

to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces

1

to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye

1

erotic; pornographic; obscene; perverted; horny; dirty

1

etc.; et cetera; and so on

1

bringing; taking; carrying

1

to explain the situation

1

with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh; suddenly blushing; in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly

1

police officer; policeman; constable

2

to project; to stick out; to stand out

2

past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40

2

subordinate person

2

to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare

2

jurisdiction; control

2

plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward

1

ambush; lying in wait for an ambush

1

in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case

1

to get back together (with a former partner)

1

to grow old; to age

2

to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate

1

yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill

2

ginkgo nut; gingko nut

2

to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of

1

standing close together; bristling (with)

2

to overflow from something full

2

here and there; in places

2

lunch; (Western-style) single-plate lunch set; plate lunch; launch (boat); motorboat; ranch

1

catalog; catalogue; inventory; menu

1

girls' high school

1

life; living; I; me; student

1

business; liveliness

1

sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan

4