comfort; consolation; diversion
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
pre-war days; before the war
abandoned city; deserted city
to (hit and) crush; to smash; to squash; to defeat soundly; to crush (an opponent, hopes, etc.)
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
roar; cry (esp. of triumph); battle cry; screech (of a bird); scream; yawp
condition of a patient; state of a disease; pathology
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back; to rely on; to depend on
silent film; silent movie
dramatic; exciting; touching; extreme
nerve; nerves; sensitivity
exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal
whoosh (of water); hiss (of a cat, snake, etc.); sizzle
fricative; fricative consonant
remote past; far ago; time immemorial
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
best; supreme; wonderful; highest; maximum; most
test; trial; ordeal; tribulation
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta); dog salmon
refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
shopping; purchased goods
(one's) wife; (someone's) wife; landlady
yes; wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan
missus; missis; proprietress (of a shop, restaurant, etc.); landlady; hostess
black marketeer; black market trader
one's only good clothes (suit, dress, etc.); one's only suit of clothes; one's best clothes; one's Sunday best
monpe; (women's) baggy work pants gathered at the ankles
tenugui; (hand) towel (usu. thin cotton cloth)
style of wrapping hair with a towel (worn by women while working)
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
demobilization; demobilisation; repatriation
halting English; broken English
American soldier; US serviceman; US servicewoman
cheap article; poor-quality article