self-indulgence; doing as one pleases
coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
slave traffic; slave dealer
skilled person; capable person; doer; performer; giver; bestower
warm (treatment, reception, etc.); kind; cordial; hospitable; courteous; respectful
to be of no concern to one; to be nothing to do with one
not caring; not giving a damn
lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
achievements; actual results; accomplishments; past results; track record
authorities; relevant authorities; authorities concerned; this office
scene of the crime (offense, offence)
secret; private; surreptitious
communality; community; having something in common
black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator
trembling with fear; filled with trepidation
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
land subsidence; decline in influence
store's appearance (esp. shop front, signs, etc.)
tolerable; passable; adequate; so-so
success; prosperity; boom
plate (often as in "tectonic plate")
mini-; miniskirt; mini-skirt
yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)
to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond
costume; dress; attire; (arch.) interior decoration; (arch.) landscaping; (arch.) furnishing
one eye; eye (for pictures, etc.)
one-armed person; one-handed person
with an extreme cold (i.e. temperature); lonelily; lonesomely; (acting) coldly (toward someone)
(smelling) strongly; pungently; furiously; indignantly; fuming
round frame glasses; round-lensed eyeglasses
plain; unaffected; natural; unpretentious; frank; candid
clothes made from jersey cloth; cutsew
freckles; buckwheat chaff