inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome
moral duty; moral obligations; justification; pretext; just cause
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
to call for somebody; to come for someone; to pick someone up
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
to set free; to let go; to release; to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
had better ...; had better not ...
reigning; controlling; dictating
to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth
(not) ever; (not) at all; (not) on any account; deepest bottom of the earth
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
quirk of fate; twist of fate; (an) irony
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
(something) one does not really mean; insincere
corruption; immorality; lapse from virtue; fall from virtue
fate; destiny; predestination
to carry on one's back; to be burdened with; to take responsibility for; to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something); to be conceited
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
near; close; beside; third person
mistress; kept woman; (lit.) No. 2
devotion; attachment; infatuation
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
to become familiar with; to fit in; to adapt oneself; to get used to; to grow accustomed to
other people's affairs; somebody else's problem
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
being up to the person himself
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
to be helpful; to be dependable; to stand by (someone)
birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world