serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
carpenter's square; instigation; suggestion; metal wire with a prop animal (e.g. butterfly, bird) attached to the end; rod used to control the arm of a puppet (in bunraku)
puppet; marionette; puppet (person, organization, government, etc.); figurehead; (arch.) prostitute
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
(game pieces, soldiers, etc.) under one's control
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
sharing a room; dormitory room; match between wrestlers from the same stable
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
step; stair; shelf; layer; grade; level; dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
Japanese ash (Fraxinus japonica)
provision; supply; payment; allowance; grant
accidental death; casualty
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues
nasal breathing; breathing through one's nose; person's pleasure; excitement
talking about one's love interests; girls' talk; gossiping
insensitive; inconsiderate; callous; thick-skinned
special someone; special person; precious one; significant other
mundane; routine; everyday; unremarkable; common; day-to-day
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
to entrust (someone) with; to pin one's hopes on (someone's future); to have great expectations for; to have (someone) deliver (a letter, etc.); to leave (a message); to send word
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
fragment; broken piece; one of the same group; accomplice; one of a pair; counterpart
to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes); to hook; to catch; to cheat; to evade payment; to drink (alcohol)
to cause someone to worry
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
tipsy; pleasantly drunk; mellow; entranced; enchanted; captivated
last years; closing years; last days; closing days; end; last stage
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
paying back a favour; repayment (of an obligation, kindness, etc.)
benefactor; patron; person to whom one owes a great deal; person to whom one is (deeply) indebted