house where one was born; one's parents' house
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity
fecundity; having many children; abundant production
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
boiled octopus; person as red as a lobster
immunity; immunization; immunisation; being hardened (to); being unaffected (by); being accustomed (to)
to hit; to strike; to throw; to toss; to mix; to wear (sword, etc.)
alcohol; (alcohol-based) hand sanitizer
about when; about what time; how soon
switching over to; migration; transition
sexy; popular; well-liked
Japanese style; light wind; moderate breeze
quiet unsociable person; obstinate person; blockhead
gas cartridge stove; portable stove; camp stove
volume retailer; mass marketer; emporium
(good quality) meat; processed meat; small goods
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
national holiday; festival day
domestic; domestically-produced; produced within a country
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
Wagyu beef; Japanese beef
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
to (be able to) make contact; to (be able to) get in touch
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan
fiend for work; workaholic; career-minded person