tool; implement; means; furniture
best; supreme; wonderful; highest; maximum; most
to devote all one's energies; to give one's everything; to put in all one's effort
to take (by force); to take away; to snatch; to absorb (one's attention); to fascinate; to captivate
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
to get carried away; to become over-excited; to push one's luck; to push a good thing too far
newcomer; neophyte; novice; newbie
alone; by oneself; on one's own
fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; last-ditch effort
tsk; tut; shoot; chirp; tweet
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
mountain range; mountain belt
halfway up (down) a mountain; mountainside
fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
hard to reach place; remote place
to go around spreading (news, rumors, etc.); to cry about; to circulate; to broadcast
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively; extreme
not under observation; not on one's radar; unmarked (player); unguarded; unmarked (item, etc.); without a mark
to make merry; to be festive
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
departure; leaving; setting off
middle of the night; dead of night
mountain; hill; mine; (mountain) forest; heap; pile; protruding or high part of an object
opposite side; other side; over there; ahead; destination; there (somewhere distant, esp. abroad)
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
thereupon; shortly thereafter
cooperation; collaboration; help; support
to have a talk; to tell a story
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
two persons; two people; pair; couple
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player