end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
seeing and hearing; (from) one's own experiences
business that exploits its employees (e.g. through unpaid overtime)
deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
living room (Western style); sitting room
independent action; acting alone
acting as a group; doing something together (in a group); collective action
to be taken for granted; to be generally accepted; to be the established wisdom; to be the (social) convention; to be the customary thing to do
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
festival; feast; carnival
smell of something rotten; rotten smell
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
simply put; putting it simply; in short
holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; social withdrawal; shunning other people
bad move (in chess, shogi, etc.)
safety zone; traffic island
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation
scene; sight; scenario; setting
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
to be awash with; to teem with; to be full of
party; banquet; reception; feast; dinner
to be conspicuous; to stand out
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
throwing down; dropping; airdrop; investment
extermination; annihilation
unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking
overspec; over-engineered; overqualified (job candidate)
selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases
future (usually near); prospects
engraver; carver; sculptor
to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit-in (in protest)
example; specimen; sample
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident