respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home); to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight; to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still
self-hatred; self-abhorrence; self-loathing
to grow timid; to cower; to become perverse; to become contrary; to be cramped; to be constrained
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
to accept; to receive; to agree
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
baldness; bald head; bald person; baldy; idiot; moron
shaved head; person with a shaved head; skinhead; shaved-headed member of a subculture often associated with Neo-nazism
this world; this life; world of the living
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
pessimism; disappointment
shall ...; to assume; to suppose
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
beautiful woman with cold, standoffish air
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
in perfect form; going swimmingly
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
to relax; to feel at home
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude