ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
economic fortune; luck with money
black magic; black art; witchcraft; sorcery
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join
sofa bed; sofa-bed; sofabed
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
to act timid (about doing); to show diffidence; to feel ashamed; to feel guilty
fatigue; weariness; exhaustion; tiredness
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; (emotionally) cold; coldhearted; unfeeling
to take an attitude; to take a stance; to commit oneself; to assume a position
sympathy; compassion; pity
to lose completely; to waste; to let slip away
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
and; thereupon; because of that
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
sleek; smooth; thin (of a liquid); without hesitation or delay
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken; chicken meat
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
to repeat; to do something over again
bright red; deep red; flushed (of face); downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to bend; to warp; to lose heart
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
butter from cow's milk; storax (resin); styrax; toad venom
self-sufficiency; self-containment; autonomy; self-absorption
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
self-satisfied look; triumphant expression
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
objection; refutation; rebuttal; counterargument
high tension (as in electronics, etc.); excited; enthusiastic
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me