elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress
not entirely wrong but not entirely right; so-so; average
bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu
(school) subject; curriculum; course; item; heading; entry
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
outdoors; outside; open air; fields; outskirts; suburbs
drawing board; drafting board
grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
starting field which contains the November and/or December 20-point card
7 or 3 ratio; hair parted on one side
without (doing); instead of; if (it) isn't done; if (one) doesn't do ...; if not ...; unless ...
purse; money bag; wallet; wealth; money possessed
unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
New Year's greetings; New Year's call; New Year's gift
to chip; to nick; to break; to lack
tumor; tumour; swelling; boil; abscess
return; relapse; recurrence
recuperation; medical treatment
careful; thorough; meticulous; scrupulous
work; book; (a book) by; obvious; striking
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan; wild boar (meat)
to begin to read; to leaf through a book
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone
returning to (one's home in) Tokyo; returning to (one's home in) the capital
tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster
heroine; female protagonist
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale