confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
Excellent (grade); A; superiority; excellence; gentle; graceful
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
to be possible; to be likely; to be probable
recovery; undoing; recall
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
again (and again); once again; yet again
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to seduce
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
boat to transport mud; (fictional) boat made of (dried) mud
bragging of one's misfortune
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
scion; cion; (horticultural) graft; opportunity to continue a conversation
the Ox (second sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Ox (around 2am, 1-3am, or 2-4am); north-northeast; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
to carve; to engrave; to sculpt; to tattoo
bedside; near one's pillow
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
plaster; patch; ointment; liniment
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of
medical efficacy; effect of a medicine
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
effect; efficacy; virtue; benefit
shopping; purchased goods
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to lose heart; to lose interest; to lose motivation; to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose flavor
to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate
navy (esp. the Japanese navy prior to the 1850s)