unusual; unwonted; uncharacteristic
convenience; accommodation; advantage; benefit; expediency
irregular; bad bounce (in tennis); bad hop (in baseball)
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
forced repatriation; deportation
full portrait; whole aspect; full story
injury; inflicting bodily injury
to joke around; to do and say ridiculous things
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness
to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
modern convenience; convenience of civilized life; blessings of civilization
area; region; district; locality
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home
about here; in this neighborhood
suffix for room numbers; suffix for apartment numbers
automatic lock; automatic door-locking system
these days; nowadays; today; at this time (of day); at this hour
form; method; system; formula
going up and down; ascent and descent; climb and descent
evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge
article; thing; object; property; real estate
construction; architecture (of buildings)
to demolish; to tear down; to pull down
emergency staircase; fire escape
upper floor (of a high-rise building)
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; neglecting (e.g. one's studies); leaving unattended
tap-tap; knock-knock; cough-cough; bark (of a fox); yelp; heavily (e.g. of snow falling)
knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice; tap; click (e.g. of a retractable pen or mechanical pencil)
personal history; background; career
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
race (of people); type of person
uneasy feeling; sense of anxiety; malaise
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)
memories; recollections; reminiscence
arrest rate; clear-up rate; crime-arrest ratio
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth