fear; horror; risk; danger; awe; reverence
to be horrified; to be filled with trepidation
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
if anything; conversely; putting it the other way around; coming at it from the opposite angle
down to earth; reasonable; able to deal with
clumsiness; awkwardness; ineptitude
to be involved (in); to get involved (in); to relate to (a matter); to pertain to; to (seriously) affect; to concern
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)
guarantee; security; assurance; warranty
origin; (arch.) appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor; (arch.) birth of an emperor or his ancestors
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
strange; unexpected; (by) chance; unusual; curious
stomach lining; gastric wall
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
common knowledge; well-known fact
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
becoming cancerous; canceration
let sleeping dogs lie; wake not a sleeping lion; (lit.) the spirit you do not approach will not curse you
to be lacking in options; to be too few
try; attempt; try (rugby)
Labor Thanksgiving Day (national holiday; November 23)
three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
negligent; careless; slipshod; slovenly; reckless; irresponsible
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
sense of fulfillment; sense of completeness; sense of accomplishment; sense of contentment
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
Tochigi Prefecture (Kanto area)
Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)
medical university; medical college; medical school
to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about
sphere; circle; range; category
old couple; elderly couple
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
(one's) life is not in danger; not life-threatening
to answer; to respond; to meet; to satisfy; to accept
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond