black-market lending; illegal loan
trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time
debt collector; bill collector; repo man
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
yakuza; gangster; mobster; useless; worthless; good-for-nothing
to do one good; to be beneficial; to stand in someone else's shoes; (arch.) to care deeply for someone
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
at that time; in those days
control; management (e.g. of a business)
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
license; permit; licence; certificate
acquisition; obtaining; gaining possession; purchase
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
top university; leading university; first-rate university
entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
being in charge of (esp. a class or subject); taking charge of; class teacher; homeroom teacher; form teacher
man; male; masculine gender
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
suffix for room numbers; suffix for apartment numbers
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
to feign ignorance; to evade one's responsibilities
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to kill by hitting; to beat to death; to slaughter