crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
application; entry; request; subscription; offer; proposal
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
registration book; registration card
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
counter; service counter (e.g. at a bank); counter (at a bar, cafe, etc.); automatically responding with an upload slot to someone who allows you to download (e.g. in P2P systems)
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
maintenance; preservation; improvement
disparate society; stratified society
diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted
corridor; hallway; passageway
to relax; to feel at home
to Google; to search for information on the WWW
to get excited; to get hyped up; to become happy; to get in a good mood
to set up shop; to open a store
yearbook; almanac; annual
waiting time; latency; standby time (e.g. cellular phones); queueing time
control; check; restraint; inhibition
cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
(someone else's) child; child; kid
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse
parentless; orphaned; parentless child; orphan
bureaucratic routine; red tape
to indicate; to show; to point to
kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper)
practical; useful; utilitarian; pragmatic
rough (estimate, manner, etc.); crude; broad; loose; careless (work)