misfortune; adverse fortune; hapless fate; checkered (life, career, etc.); varied; eventful
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy
tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
sick person; patient; invalid
Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
conversion; shift; about-face; switch
bringing; taking; carrying
black-dyed leather; leather dyed in deep indigo; edible mushroom in the Thelephoraceae family
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
audience (with a person of high standing)
immediately; right away; on the spot
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
wooden; made of wood; wooden construction
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
(United States of) America; USA
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
inspection; study by observation; field trip; sitting out (e.g. PE class)
poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby
land east of China; Japan
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion