it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
influential; prominent; leading; strong; powerful; likely
single word; a few words; brief comment
clearly evident; quite obvious; as clear as day; beyond any doubt; strikingly apparent
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to
sexual (i.e. relating to biological sex); sexual (relations, attraction, abuse, etc.)
to blame; to find fault with
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
just because; even if; even though
to envy; to be envious (of); to be jealous (of)
searching for the culprit; trying to find out who did something
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
inside this; in this; in here; among these; of this group; out of these
basis; grounds; base (of operations); base (of a group of stones)
staff member; station employee; official
confidence; trust; faith; credit
information leak; data breach
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
control; management; supervision
each (person); everyone; individual; respective
treatment; service; handling; management
until now; till now; up to now; up to the present; so far
silence (not speaking); muteness
to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
newspaper reporter; print journalist
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to talk; to chat; to chatter
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
to get angry; to get mad; to lose one's temper; to scold; to tell (someone) off
inhuman; heinous; atrocious
to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way; to grow freely (e.g. of weeds)
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
undesirable state brought about by (my) lack of virtue; feeling morally responsible; mea culpa
excuse; explanation; justification; defense; defence
to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)