high-rise apartment building; high-rise condominium; tower block
one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
extravagant; lavish; opulent; luxurious; magnificent; splendid
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
there is nothing; having nothing
lovely; wonderful; charming; enchanting; nice; great
living-cum-dining room; combined living room and dining room
three; three years of age
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you; you shouldn't have; it's too much
to live; to reside; to inhabit
envious; jealous; enviable (position, etc.)
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
decluttering; clearing out past accumulation; minimalism
worldly desires; materialistic desires
to cut (cloth, paper, etc.); to cut off; to sever (ties); to break off (relations); to cut off (a supply route, enemy's retreat, etc.); to block
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
clearly; plainly; distinctly; decisively; flatly; definitely
household (electrical) appliances; home appliances; consumer electronics
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
same; identical; equal; anyway; in any case; if one must ...
several; a few; number; quantity; counting; calculation; number
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole