conclusion; decision; end; settlement
recommendation; referral; endorsement
(relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality
messenger; envoy; emissary
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
birth; creation; formation
posterity; future life; life to come
full-course dinner; multicourse meal
trembling with fear; filled with trepidation
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
present (brought by a visitor); gift
calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry
kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat
ice; ice cream; icecream; (arch.) usurer; (arch.) usury
side; flank; profile; aspect; dimension
to dig up; to unearth; to uncover
pot (esp. teapot, coffee-pot); vacuum bottle; thermos flask
tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes
morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)
food and drink; eating and drinking
harmless and inoffensive; bland; tepid
suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
talk; recital; narration; topic
crucial; key; most important; main (point)
something unrelated (to what has been discussed thus far)
suspicious character (person, figure)
to sniff around; to snoop around; to nose about
death; mortality; to die; to pass away
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
gooseflesh; goose pimples; goose bumps
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
going through; going via; going by way of
official announcement; proclamation
exerting care; attention; consideration; thoughtfulness