to boast; to brag; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark; to roar
desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application
embrace; hug; holding in one's arms
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
pure; genuine; trueborn; natural-born
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
ago; since; before; previous
to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable
understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce
to work out; to think up; to devise; to manage to find (money, time, etc.); to scrape together (funds)
family; members of a family
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
thin (e.g. air); diluted; sparse; lacking (e.g. empathy); deficient; insufficient (e.g. zeal)
to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important
please; somehow or other; one way or another
affirmation; affirmative (logic)
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!
murder; killing; murderer
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
to betray; to turn traitor to; to double-cross
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less