futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
things left (to one) by the deceased; inherited item; estate; lost item; lost property
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
Island; insula; island; islet
imperial palace; shrine; Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager; woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child; elderly woman of imperial lineage
infantry; infantryman; foot soldier
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters)
looking; viewing; (please) try (to)
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
to become better; to improve
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
knowing; (an) acquaintance
having; holding; wear; durability; charge; expense
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate