terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)
plainclothes police officer
reserves (esp. troops); reserve army; potential members of some group (e.g. the elderly); people at risk (e.g. of a medical condition); wannabees
right to choose; a say; option
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
self-torture; masochism; inflicting damage to oneself
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
encounter; running into; meeting with (e.g. an accident); being confronted with (e.g. a difficulty)
mother; mom; wife; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); she
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof
home area; home town; local
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny
shopping; purchased goods
badger game (scheme in which a man has his wife or lover seduce another man to blackmail him)
evening meal; dinner; supper
going out to shop; going shopping; buying in quantity; buying wholesale; bulk purchasing
becoming clear; coming to light; being ascertained; being identified; being confirmed
to accompany; to follow; to keep up with
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
junior high school student; middle school pupil
device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
memory; recollection; remembrance; memory; storage
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least