impossible; unlikely; improbable
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
to be a live-in employee; to live in; to live with
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
knothole; peep-hole; bad eyes
violently; without holding anything back; firmly; resolutely
to keep an eye on; to keep a watchful eye on
nature; the natural world; realm of nature
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
variation; rogue (something)
perception; sensation; awareness
using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
teaching the basics; initiation; introduction
just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays
area of expertise; (one's) field; (one's) line
immovable; motionless; firm; Acala (Wisdom King); Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
to teach thoroughly; to instill (into); to instil; to inculcate; to drum (into); to drill (into)
crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray; difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement
transit point; transit airport; connection airport
to stroll about; to saunter; to wander; to dangle; to swing
school hours; hours of teaching (instruction)
switching over to; migration; transition
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
weak-willed; easily pressured; pushover
unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to be quick-witted; to be quick-thinking
self-analysis; autoanalysis
unbleached cloth; unbleached colour (color); unbleached; undyed
price of a flower; fee for a geisha's companionship
stable supply; reliable supply
permission; allowance; acceptance; tolerance; pardon
means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty
boisterously; roughly; briskly
using one's fingers as a comb; combing one's hand through one's hair