sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)
near oneself; close to one; familiar
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
fast approach; quick intimacy
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
important; essential; significant; major; key; principal
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
views; opinion; discernment; pride; self-respect
even; even if ...; even though ...; because ...; as ...; with the purpose of ...
carelessly; inattentively
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
to anticipate; to foresee
shadow (e.g. on someone's happiness); cloud; shade; gloom
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
grunt; grumble; pimples; spots; cutting into small pieces; simmering
to follow; to come after; to come next (to); to rank next (to); to rank second (to)
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
seeing in the dark; night vision
to death (bored, scared, etc.); to distraction; like crazy; like mad; so much; dying (e.g. for a drink)
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind
denial; negation; negation; NOT operation
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
blushing; getting red in the face; embarrassment
lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
fishing; gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed); catch (e.g. of fish); haul
infancy; childhood; tender age
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
somehow; for some reason (or other); without knowing why
feeling of alienation; sense of being excluded; feeling of estrangement
environment; surroundings; circumstances
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like