person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
grandfather; male senior-citizen
to be tired of; to be sick of; to get fed up with
defective item; defective product; defective merchandise
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
good quality; fine quality; superior quality; high quality
evil influence; (evil) clutches; tentacles of evil
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
northern direction; north; (legal) wife (of a nobleman); lady
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
side (esp. of a waterbody); edge; bank; shore
followers; subordinates; being under someone's command
to turn against; to become an enemy
all of a sudden; suddenly; by chance; unexpectedly
fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
enclosure; fence; storage (of fruit, vegetables, etc.); partitioned area of a room for conducting tea ceremonies; mistress; castle
to kill by burning to death
pouring all one's efforts into a single issue (goal, etc.); focusing entirely on one objective; single-minded approach; concentrated all-out effort; targeted strike
to be freezing cold (of the weather); to be bitterly cold; to freeze; to become frozen; to freeze over
to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)
easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over
so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)
clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)
to burn to a crisp; to scorch
pure heart; naivete; innocence
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
to show; to bare (the teeth)
aloof; morose; (smelling) strongly; pungently; spiky (esp. of a hairstyle); sticking up straight (e.g. of plant stems)
bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat
nothing but; except; no more than
stone (of a fruit); pit; core (of an organization, team, etc.); nucleus; nuclear weapons; nucleus (of an atom); nucleus (of a cell)
armoring; armouring; armor; armour
somewhat thick; relatively thick; thickish; on the thick side