online shopping; e-commerce; mail order
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
unsanitary condition; lack of hygienic care; inattention to hygiene; unhygienic conditions
canned food; tinned food; confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space
puzzled; perplexed; quizzical; dubious; suspicious
degree of familiarity; popularity; name recognition; notoriety
to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
large pink (Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus); woman who displays the feminine virtues of old Japan
elevated walkway through the audience to the stage; honourable end to a career
tea ceremony; Way of Tea; sadō
Sparta (ancient Greek city-state); hard education; hard training; strict; severe
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
mailbox; letter box; mailbox; inbox
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
to detain; to check; to restrain; to stop
to apologize (apologise); to refuse; to decline; to be unable to bear; to be defeated (by)
care; attentiveness; attention; consideration (for others); solicitude
working adult; full-fledged member of society
I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...
to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out
erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion
pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; having a tendency towards; being close to
expressing emotion; drawing facial expressions
clear as day; plain as day; patently obvious; (lit.) clearer than watching a fire
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
to pick a fight; to pick a quarrel
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
verbalization; putting into words
dad; dada; daddy; pa; papa; pappa
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
currently nowhere to be seen; unknown where it went; disappeared into thin air
to go out and away; to leave
echo (esp. one reverberating in the mountains); mountain god; mountain guardian deity
intuition; instinct; hunch
to bungle; to make things awkward
to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
person who has escaped death; failed suicide; person who has outlived their time; dotard; doddering old man