accompanying; travelling together; traveling together; same bank
unwelcome favor; unwelcome favour; misplaced kindness
suicide by drowning; drowning oneself; entering the water; hitting the water
idea; plan; fancy; impulse; thought; whim
to be enlivened; to be exhilarated
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry
hook; hook bracket (Japanese quotation mark)
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion
neighbourhood; neighborhood
Kai; Kai ken; Japanese dog breed
actually; in fact; as a matter of fact
to work (someone) hard; to push (someone) around
every day and every night; day after day; daily
maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
construction camp; bunkhouse; workers' living quarters
maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period)
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
ominous word; ill-omened word; misfortune
relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)
general; popular; common; typical
third day of the month; three days
presence; appearance; attendance; visit; going out
ejection; eviction; dispossession
nasal voice; nasal stop; nasal occlusive; nasal
somewhere to go; place to go
and then; in addition to that; also; even so
concentrated fire; intense criticism
to sell off; to sell completely
sense of language; feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance
gentle; quiet; demure; sober; mild-mannered; meek
to run around; to bustle about