Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
in consideration of; in deference to; out of respect for; for (someone's) sake
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
lineage; pedigree; family line; birth
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
madness; craziness; insanity
traditional; conventional
to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order
revealing (information, a secret, etc.); disclosure; telling; letting out
tactful; adroit; shrewd; clever; smart; affable
to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify
to persuade someone to accept the inevitable
fate; chance; relationship; tie
secret; private (information)
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
express; special delivery
talk; dialogue; conversation
family physician; family doctor
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
gentleman; man of learning and virtue
the instruction of a teacher
cushion; pillow; mattress
earnestly; immediately; exactly
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
to soak; to dip; to steep; to moisten; to wet
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy