your home; your family; their home; (my) home
the opposite direction; the other way
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)
shh!; shush!; hush!; shoo!; scram!
to encourage; to cheer on; to cheer (someone) up; to raise (one's voice)
nonchalant; unconcerned; in a casual manner
by today; before the day is over
abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
removal of astringent taste (e.g. by cooking)
to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.); to take (a measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); raw; live (i.e. not recorded)
astringency; tartness; austere elegance; elegant simplicity; subdued style
preliminary arrangements; preparation; spadework; pre-cooking
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
above; over; top; summit; surface; on (top of); the above (in a piece of writing)
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
all sorts of things; (anything and) everything; by all means; at any cost
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
the old days; the past; former times; the past ten years; the past decade
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
to long for; to yearn for; to hanker after; to be attracted by; to be drawn to; to aspire to
cylindrical slab of meat on a single bone (oft. depicted in manga, anime, etc.); cartoon meat
soccer; (association) football; seersucker
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
failure; mistake; blunder
half-cooked; half-done; soft-boiled; half-ripe; unripe