Vocabulary

both families

fine article; good-quality item; quality product

to banter; to make fun of; to jeer at

cold; chill; cold weather; cold wave; cold air

to create (a sensation); to cause (a commotion); to give rise to (controversy)

haughty; arrogant; proud; stuck-up

forming into an organization; forming into an organisation; setting up a group

placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); interring ashes

being settled; coming to a conclusion

live-in (e.g. job)

eldest brother

labor; labour; service

item of expenditure

repayment of someone's kindness; showing one's gratitude; moral requital

threat

votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

oral cavity; mouth

crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray

chilly; unpleasantly cold

grain (of wood)

middle of the night; dead of night

endlessly; continuously; (going) on and on

to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude

pet dog

to run out; to rush out

something out of the ordinary; variant; variety; exception; novelty

famine; crop failure

whim; caprice; fancy

calculator

soy sauce; soya sauce; shoyu

ramming attack; hurling oneself (at)

to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up (with chopsticks, tweezers, etc.)

change (for a purchase)

footwear; footgear; shoes

left-handedness; left-handed person; left-hander

poor catch (fishing)

historic spot; historic site; place of historical interest; historic remains; ruins

overloading (someone; with work); overworking (someone); overwhelming; flooding (e.g. with tasks)

reckless deforestation; overcutting of forests