work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth
to check through; to thoroughly investigate
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
extravagant spending; wasteful spending; splurging; squandering
moneylending; moneylender
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
bottomless (bucket, etc.); unbounded (good nature, optimism, etc.); boundless; imprudent; indiscreet; extremely heavy drinker
good-naturedness; good-natured person; credulous person; easy mark
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting
abundant harvest; bumper crop
shipping; shipment; forwarding
reduction by half; halving
every year; yearly; annually
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
fiery chariot (which carries the souls of sinners into hell); desperate financial situation; dire straits
interference; meddling; butting in
eldest daughter; first-born daughter
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
sister complex; excessive attachment to one's sister; audio component system; stereo component system
condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp
unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
(of a woman) strong-minded; spirited; mannish
fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
sorcery; black magic; netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam