emotional care; emotional support; caring for somebody's mental well-being
reading in a monotone; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
affliction; hardship; difficulty; suffering; trouble
sweet half sake; sweet drink made from fermented rice
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
to go home; (arch.) to go; (arch.) to leave; (arch.) to pass (of time); (arch.) to die; (arch.) to go bad
sleeping during the day; (afternoon) nap; siesta
being sick and tired (of); being fed up (with); having one's fill (of)
old woman; joker (card); hag; bitch
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
surface of a board or record
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
in advance; beforehand; previously
elderly woman; senior lady-in-waiting
to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly
graph paper; section paper
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
to be surprised; to be amazed; to be frightened; surprise (e.g. surprise party)
harmless; innocuous; safe; benign
storage room; storeroom; lumber room
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
to be upset; to lose one's composure; to lose self-control; to put in disorder; to mess up; to disturb
to be tired of looking at
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
violently; without holding anything back; firmly; resolutely
storage room; storeroom; closet; grayish blue
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off