dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
sit down; sit up; Sit! (to a dog)
at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; (emotionally) cold; coldhearted; unfeeling
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
chord; "on" reading of a kanji
to bungle; to make things awkward
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
to fall completely silent; to become still as death
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera); to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.); to shift (position); to be slightly off
discipline; training; teaching manners
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
living thing; living creature; animal; life
clearing one's throat; cough
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
all night long; all through the night
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
instant; moment; for an instant
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about
to read the situation; to sense the mood
suit (clothing); suit (playing cards)
button (clothing); push-button
licking; lapping up; (eating up) quickly; gobbling up