Vocabulary

reheating (food); rebaking

to temper; to harden; to torture; to discipline

difficult to translate; untranslatable

to break one's promise

to be appointed to a post; to assume office

to place someone in a position

chartula

to inject a unit of dope

to exorcise; to escape evil

to exchange promises

to act (as); to hold an office; to play the part (of)

to be deprived of one's role; to have one's livelihood taken away

to assign a role to an actor

vegetable soup

soft voice

easy (simple) writing

foster child

to bring up; to foster; to rear

father and mother

inexpensively; cheaply

to cost little; to come cheap

to get (something) done cheaply; to keep costs down; to finish at low cost

to be cheap; to be inexpensive

to sell (something) cheap

low salary

wild boar

to let the rent fall into arrears

job; employment

to be in opposition; to be in private life

to go up on the roof

Aedes (genus of mosquitoes); striped mosquito

shattered dream

seriously ill

to become seriously ill; to catch an incurable illness

illness radical

to cure an illness; to cure a disease

the Japanese spirit

Yamato; Japan

to pile up; to form into a (huge) pile

mountain air