apartment building; apartment block; apartment house; apartment
relatively new (building); recently built
so-so; passable; now, now; there, there; my, my; oh my!
article; thing; object; property; real estate
living by oneself; living alone
beyond one's means or position
owner (esp. of a business)
cheap; inexpensive; calm; peaceful; quiet
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
drying basket (e.g. for dishes)
chair; seat; stool; post; position; seat
sense of isolation; (feelings of) loneliness
locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind
toilet; restroom; bathroom; going to the toilet; relieving oneself
sobbing; weeping; whimpering
waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room
clear insight; resignation (to one's fate); acceptance
please excuse the intrusion; I'm coming in
second-year student; second-year pupil; biennial; biennial plant
leaping through time; time travel
distance; journey; itinerary; path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
test; trial; ordeal; tribulation
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable
university student; college student
to adjoin each other; to sit side by side
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
quickly; promptly; immediately; indifferently; coldly
manner of using one's hands
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
how many years; how long; what year
free (of charge); gratuitous
to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on
menu; bill of fare; program; programme; schedule
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); bad actor; lousy actor; wooden actor
nimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing
horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
roasting; grilling; toasting; tempering (in metallurgy)