suit (clothing); suit (playing cards)
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
police officer; policeman; constable
master; expert; expert board game player (chess, go, shogi, etc.)
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
hello; good day; good afternoon
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
warm; mild; considerate; kind; warm (of a colour); mellow
to cool (from room temperature); to chill; to calm down; to cool off; to be frightened (at); to be scared (of)
deflation; contraction; shrinking; constriction
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
to jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of
rakugo story teller; comic story teller
practice; practising; training; study
one night; one evening; all night; overnight
death from cold; freezing to death
to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest
funny story; funny anecdote
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
forty-ninth day after a person's death
placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); depositing ashes
right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
to be found; to be discovered
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
permission; approval; authorization; to permit; to authorize
connection; attachment; changing trains; conjunction
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
private person; individual
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
February; second month of the lunar calendar
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)