cash; ready money; money on hand; mercenary; self-interested; calculating
and yet; though; when; in spite of
that's the way it is; such is life
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
Sunday; nth day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to be promoted
to prosper; to flourish; to thrive
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
quickly; promptly; immediately; indifferently; coldly
to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
sympathy; compassion; pity
(surprise) attack; assault; raid; charge
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
cool; calm; composed; all right; fine; OK
just managing; with great difficulty
to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)
diamond; (railway) schedule; timetable; diagram
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
regret; repentance; remorse
parent; parents; dealer; banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
the old days; the past; former times; the past ten years; the past decade
unseasonable; out-of-season
pat; tap; pop; crack; cutesy suffix applied to names
monastery; convent; cloister; abbey
doing as one pleases; having one's own way
at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current
revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
court (of law); courtroom
judicial decision; judgement; judgment; sentence; decree
(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
dew; tears; (not) a bit; (not) at all
a little; a few; small; only; just; merely
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun