indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately
to be hard to deal with; to be an eccentric; to be idiosyncratic
inexperienced (in life experience); unsophisticated; green; inexperienced (in love); innocent; naive
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
to deal with a large number
strangling (to death); strangulation
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
living room (Western style); sitting room
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
old friend; familiar face
prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot
hunting; hunt; gathering (mushrooms, shellfish, etc.); picking (berries, fruit, etc.); hunting down (a criminal, etc.); rounding up (e.g. communists)
perpetrator; wrong-doer; aggressor; assailant; offender; at-fault party (e.g. in an accident)
passing; (person) who happens to pass by; (place) that one happens to pass by; casual (e.g. romance); momentary
100,000,000; one hundred million; 10^8
occupation (i.e. field of regular employment); steady job; regular work
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
coming and going; going back and forth (between); commuting (to work, school, etc.); attending regularly; passbook; bankbook
wide; extensive; comprehensive; far-reaching; widespread
to have; to possess; to own; to be endowed with
soap; soapland; brothel where one can bathe with prostitutes
prostitution; call girl business
influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well
once in a lifetime; once in one's life
to be given the cold shoulder; to be jilted; to be rejected; to be dumped
man who has never had sex except with sex workers
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty
to wait for one's chance; to wait for an opportunity
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
fault; weakness; flaw; crux (of a matter); difficult point; point of contention
home environment; family environment