heavy load; heavy luggage; heavy freight; heavy burden; heavy responsibility; encumbrance
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
suggestion; hint; implication
fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly
unreasonable; irrational; outrageous; absurd
ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)
over-fond parent; doting parent
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
probability; likelihood; chances
to meet fortuitously; to meet by chance; to happen across
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
to become thin; to lose weight; to slim; to become impoverished (of soil); to become sterile; to become infertile
to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); to shave (one's head)
easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply
timid; fainthearted; weak-willed
to stare at each other; to lock eyes (with)
to thrust away; to send flying
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence; pretense; (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction
to carry; to transport; to come; to go; to use (a brush, chopsticks, etc.); to move
to cover up the sky (e.g. smoke)
dark clouds; threatening signs; ominous indications
eerie; hair-raising; exaggerated; ostentatious
work; business; company; study
in accordance with; according to
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
encroachment; invasion; erosion (e.g. of market share, rights); erosion; corrosion
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
area (measurement); square measure; size (of land); floor space
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
process; course; mechanism
fast forward (e.g. VCR, tape deck, etc.)
to keep standing; to stand motionless
in an instant; in a flash; in the blink of an eye; in no time at all; just like that