with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
as likely as not; 50-50; even match; tie
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
those (near the second person)
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
detective team; study group; club
only; merely; but; no more than
one day; (on) a certain day
note left by a dead person; suicide note; testamentary letter; posthumous work
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
annual (plant); first-year student
leader of a delegation (body, party)
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
father; dad; husband; you; he
war; fighting; fierce competition
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
dispersal; evacuation; removal; spreading out (troops); deployment
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
art dealer; fine art(s) shop
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
to inlay; to insert; to plug in (to a formula); to immerse; to trick; to deceive
to shine; to glitter; to be bright
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
to sniff out; to get wind of
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
inattention; absent-mindedness