commoner; plebeian; commoner (in Japan between 1869 and 1947; the lowest of the three classes)
pretending to respect (someone) while in fact staying distant; keeping at arm's length; avoiding (something unpleasant); shying away from; giving (the batter) an "intentional walk"
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
(of a woman) strong-minded; spirited; mannish
quarrelsome; easy to anger; quick to lose temper
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
very young; childish; immature
Sunday; nth day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening
weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance
occurrence; happening; incident; event
to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life
half the body; half length
to be buried; to be covered; to be hidden
to crawl out; to creep out; to begin to crawl
spot; point; place; position
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to quiet (a child, crowd, etc.); to quieten; to calm (one's nerves, excitement, etc.); to compose (oneself); to suppress (a rebellion, riot, fire, etc.); to quell
scratch; graze; scrape; minor damage
healing; soothing; therapy; comfort; solace
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
in person; personally; (do) oneself
faint; fainting; losing consciousness
attentive; cautious; careful; watchful
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
to experience (something unpleasant); to go through; to suffer
to be closed; to be blocked; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)
detour; circumvention; turning movement
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
line; queue; procession; matrix
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
another; one more; (not) quite; (not) very; lacking