close friend; bosom friend; buddy; crony; chum
to devote oneself wholeheartedly to; to sacrifice one's health for; to risk one's life
readiness; (mental) preparedness; resolution; determination; resignation (to one's fate)
to have the privilege of doing
bow-wow; woof; wah-wah; bawling; clamouring; clamoring
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
to shout (in anger); to yell
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); canine; squealer; rat; loser; asshole
sitting down; sitting up; sit!
at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
pretending not to see (something); turning a blind eye (to); closing one's eyes (to); looking the other way
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...
complete failure; debacle; fiasco; disaster
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
gold (metal); gold (color); gold (medal); first place (prize); something of great value; something golden (e.g. silence); money
cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; (emotionally) cold; coldhearted; unfeeling
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
chord; customary "on" reading (of a kanji) used in Japanese (as opposed to those derived from Chinese); (arch.) Wu reading (of a kanji; as opposed to a Han reading)
to bungle; to make things awkward
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
to fall completely silent; to become still as death
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera); to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.); to shift (position); to be slightly off
discipline; training; teaching manners
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
living thing; living creature; animal; life
clearing one's throat; cough
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
all night long; all through the night
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)