light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be anxious (to do); to get a fright; to panic; to get flustered
to whinge; to kvetch; to gripe; to complain; to whine
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
about; concerning; related to; -ish
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
consequence; causal relationship; nexus
cruel; inhumane; callous; brutal
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism
something like ...; something called ...
to save trouble; to save effort; to save hassle; to save bother; to save time
conduct; behavior; behaviour
secret intention; ulterior motive; kanji "heart" radical at bottom
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
older sister; lass; young lady
one by one; in detail; minutely
to need; to call for; to require
troublesome; annoying; complicated
negligent; careless; slipshod; slovenly; reckless; irresponsible
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
always; forever; very; greatly (esp. of hopes and desires)
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
what time; (lit.) which hour
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
to be at a loss; to be puzzled
to come and go; to go back and forth
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
middle of the night; dead of night