landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household
to (be able to) agree (with); to be able to accept; to find acceptable; to be convinced; to understand
curious personality; nosiness; curiosity; rubbernecking
absent-mindedly; absently; idly; in a subdued voice; in undertones; in a whisper
information leak; intelligence leak
proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly
adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with
therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason
by return; (call or write back) without delay; lapel; cuff; going back; returning; chorus
to be sensible; to be smart; to be tasteful; to be thoughtful; to be tactful; to be sensitive
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
independent (esp. in politics); non-partisan
lost property; something dropped and left behind; dropping something (without realising); losing something
elegance; grace; article; item; counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)
earning extra money (e.g. from a side job)
small change; pocket change; coins; small sum of money
extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off
informant; informer; contact; Information Provider
fabrication; made-up story; sham; hoax; put-up job; frame-up
to present; to offer; to show; to display; to assume (e.g. a shape)
disinformation; false information
inner structure; internal anatomy
long and large; tall and large; grand; huge
gallery; corridor; art gallery; upper gallery (in a theatre); spectators (esp. at a golf tournament)
furnishings; implements; equipment
to concentrate; to focus on; to devote; to stiffen; to become tense
to run into; to collide with; to come to the end of (a street); to run into (difficulties, problems, etc.); to run up against
(not) altogether; (not) wholly
to treat as a joke; to do jokingly
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
munching; crunching; (lightly) scratching (an itch)
shadow; shade; shading; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
escape hatch; escape door
there; over there; that place; that far; that much; that point
suddenly; all of a sudden; quickly; emphatically; energetically