accounting; finance; bill (at a restaurant); check; accountant; treasurer
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
(dying) suddenly; (breaking) brittly; with a snap; softly and swellingly
prescription bag; pharmacy bag; small bottle for carrying gunpowder
easy; simple; ready; casual; off-hand; easy-going
unnatural; affected; studied; forced
doubt; suspicion; fear; apprehension
raindrops (dripping from eaves, branches, etc.); exclamation point; exclamation mark
to understand fully; to be convinced; to be satisfied
heart attack; angina pectoris
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
starting point; point of departure
to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter); to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality); to take part (in some work); to hang about
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
of no concern at all; no skin off my nose
to call; to summon; to send for; to call together
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving to chance; neglecting; abandoning
beforehand; in advance; previously
related (by blood); blood-related; of the same blood
to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear
to grow angry; to display one's anger
to sever relations (with somebody; esp. a relative or spouse); to break off (with)
money monger; money-happy person; person who is money-mad; money-grubber
very small amount of money; penny; cent; nickel; dime
severance payment; retirement money (usu. lump-sum); redundancy payment
to use up; to exhaust; to wear out
haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
alone; by oneself; on one's own
to subsist; to keep on living
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself