loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
hug; carrying in one's arms (a baby, pet, doll, etc.)
your body; your health; yourself; you
castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord
advance notice; previous note; preliminary announcement; trailer (film, TV); preview
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
to dominate (usu. one's husband)
to yearn for; to be in love with
foresight; foreknowledge; intimation; premonition; prediction
conviction; belief; confidence
splendid; nice; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); well enough; OK
to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress
marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
to trample; to crush underfoot
former site (of something); site (e.g. of a demolished building)
to be erected; to be built
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
depravity; corruption; degradation
approval; agreement; support; favour; favor
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
convenience; user-friendliness
remodelling; remodeling; reorganization; reorganisation
to begin; to set about; to start
floor above; floor upstairs
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest
many; much; plenty; hardly
public works; public-works projects; public utilities
promotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on
wherein; therein; thereinto
centre of attention; center of attention
to give a glance (at); to take one look at
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many