lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
statement of payment (delivery)
labourer; laborer; workman
succession to or inheritance of property
to spare oneself; to spare oneself the trouble; (arch.) to nullify someone's efforts
isolation (e.g. of a particular chemical substance within a mixture)
to cut a conspicuous figure; to be by far the best
breastplate; chest protector; bib
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
to drive a wedge into (e.g. enemy defences); to wedge apart
hard-nosed; strong-willed; determined; unyielding; stubborn; resolute
birch tree (esp. the Japanese white birch, Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
to extend one's knowledge
separation; deposition; precipitation
to intertwine; to twist together
to flourish briefly (esp. before retiring or stopping); to have a day in the limelight; to have a stint of success
to insinuate; to satirize; to satirise; to take a dig at
cancellation; writing off (a debt); indicating a long sound in kana; tug o' war; tug of war
buying up of goods; cornering (market)
good-natured; of good character
one's own profits; one's own pockets
to frolic about; to mess around
somebody (important); person of importance
iron pyrites; fool's gold; pyrite
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply