retainer; subject; vassal; servant
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
suspicious character (person, figure)
rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date
telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism
verbal promise; one's word
to become misty; to become hazy
low rank; lower position; subordinate position; lower order (e.g. byte)
sub-; -ous (indicating a low oxidation state); -ite; Asia; Argentina; Arabia; America
getting (something); obtaining; scoring (goal, point, etc.)
presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd
office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs
early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
without cause; without reason
to handle (a thing) roughly
magic eye (in radio receivers, etc.)
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
(so miserable that it is) painful to look at; painful to watch
value to society; raison d'être; existence value
(poor) treatment; (bad) behavior; behaviour; action; act
to punish (e.g. a child, etc.)
to torment; to torture; to harass
premeditated murder; deliberate murder; willful murder; wilful murder
dying from blood loss; bleeding to death; hemorrhaging to death
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive
with no physical defects; in perfectly good health; sound in wind and limb