tightly; firmly; fast; sharply; keenly
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
your wife; his wife; secret meeting; secrecy
many; much; a great amount; (arch.) excessive amount
cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
chastity; virtue; fidelity
to relapse; to reassert; to review
phew; whew; huff; whoo; wohoo
fine performance; tour de force
anything; whatever; whatever one likes
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
to grow in intensity; to be aggravated; to get worse; to develop
decider; person who decides; deciding factor; clincher; trump card
to make someone's acquaintance; to become acquainted (with)
odds and ends; all; every
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
travels; pilgrimage; itinerancy
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
name of God (esp. in Christian contexts); name of Christ
dying of illness; dying of natural causes
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
to be kind to; to treat kindly
(not) even once; (not) ever
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
secret; clandestine; covert; spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.); secret agent
arrest; apprehension; capture
wife and children; (arch.) wife
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
solitary castle; isolated castle
to frame; to falsely accuse of a crime
beyond imagination; unimaginable
to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
and (also); both ... and; as well as