congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
home; household; family; hearth
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
discrimination against women; sexism
our country; our land; one's own country
to state; to express; to say; to tell; to mention
discriminatory; discriminative
in various ways; in all sorts of ways; at every opportunity; whenever there is a chance
word ending; way of ending one's words; slip of the tongue; verbal mistake
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
social progress; getting ahead in society; moving up in the world
occasion; time; circumstances; (in) case (of); when
yourself; himself; herself
public commitment; public promise; campaign pledge; official vow
contradiction; inconsistency
to throw away as useless; to scrap; to make null and void; to renege; to annul
flourish of trumpets; fanfare
uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
to hold back (someone) from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage
starting; inauguration; launch; founding; establishment; start-up
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; pile of 3 cards of the same value in oicho-kabu
unsatisfied; unsatisfactory; insufficient in some way; lacking something
to change (with the passage of time); to fade; to wane; to decline
comfortably; peacefully; freely; (growing) quickly
one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement
to redeem (from sin); to save
houseboat; pleasure boat (large, roofed)
tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is
verbal gaffe; verbal slip; slip of the tongue; using improper words
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
relation; connection; relevance
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
evening; evening (of a special event); last night; yesterday evening
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
parking lot; car park; carpark; parking garage