keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills
service; ministry; attendance; offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free
grand; magnificent; lavish; forceful; powerful; vigorous
festival; feast; carnival
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight
goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark
to press a question; to cross-examine
to long for; to yearn after; to admire; to be attracted by
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with
detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation
countenance; features; looks
mysterious thief; phantom thief
to like; to prefer; to be pleased by
hard-boiled (person, style, etc.); tough; hard-boiled fiction
to get slightly dirty (all over)
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
to couch (a sword); to look at cynically or ironically; (arch.) to stand ready (to do); (arch.) to adopt a formal attitude
honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language
polite; courteous; civil; friendship; (sexual) intimacy
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
junior high school student; middle school pupil
absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another
story; tale; legend; plot; storyline
formation; molding; making up; repair (e.g. plastic surgery); replacement; -plasty
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
soldier; combatant; warrior
to laugh away; to laugh off
meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.); suggestively; broadly; sneeringly
pride; boast; credit (to)
individuality; personality; quirk; idiosyncrasy; character; individual characteristic
reform; reformation; reorganization