painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
twilight; sunset; dusk; evening
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose
grandfather; male senior-citizen
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
younger brother and sister
to receive punishment; to be punished; to pay a penalty
ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
letter left behind by someone who has departed; farewell letter
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
Rio; Rio de Janeiro (abbr)
false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym
old house; deserted house
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail
age-appropriate (esp. of clothing, hairstyles)
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
to be in full bloom; to blossom in full glory; to be in fullness of bloom