blood relationship; blood relative
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
to happen to have on hand or in stock
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
to serve; to work for; to attend
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
sixth day of the month; six days
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance
six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
chores; odd jobs; miscellaneous affairs; miscellaneous expenses
training; drill; practice; discipline
sleeping in late; oversleeping; late riser; sleepyhead
strangeness; abnormality; disorder
castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord
above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; this world; this earth
striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
wink of sleep; snooze; doze; nap
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
unexpectedly; surprisingly
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term
before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
moment by moment; hour by hour
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
gear; cogwheel; cog (in an organization, company, etc.); cog in the machine
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)
steady; honest; sober; straightforward