someone doomed to their fate; (lit.) fish on the chopping board
useless; vain; aimless; idle
honesty; sincerity; trust; reliance; (religious) faith; devotion
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
(feeling of) indigestion; upset stomach
strong pressure; heavy pressure
I'm home!; I'm back!; now; at present; just now; a moment ago
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
to be born; to come into the world
(someone else's) parents; both parents
to collapse; to flop (onto)
futon (laid on the floor); (Japanese) mattress; underquilt; sleeping mat
embrace; hug; holding in one's arms
to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
one-way (trip); one-way ticket
limited express (train for which a limited-express ticket is required); limited express (train making a limited no. of stops); great hurry
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
right away; without delay; as soon as possible; very soon
to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fawn over (someone); to play up to; to curry favor with
to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled
favour; favor; obligation; kindness; benevolence
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)
to look down on; to make light of
space; room; unused land; room (for reconsideration, doubt, etc.); leeway; margin
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
to cut (cloth, paper, etc.); to cut off; to sever (ties); to break off (relations); to cut off (a supply route, enemy's retreat, etc.); to block
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
shiruko; sweet red-bean soup with mochi
retort; back talk; backchat
to fall into disgrace with; to incur someone's displeasure