stick; club; cudgel; bludgeon
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
henchman; follower; (arch.) adopted child
to make an appearance; to show up
head; lead; vanguard; first
showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
falling down; tumbling; reversing; inverting; getting upset
to fight; to exchange blows; to rally
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with
to run up (a hill, stairs etc.); to dash up; to rush up
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to collapse into; to flop onto
to do with enthusiasm; to be excited to do; to throw oneself into
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
faint; trance; swoon; stupefaction
darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
to be amazed; to be shocked; to be astonished; to be astounded; to be disgusted; to be exasperated
middle of the night; dead of night
general situation; general trend; general tendency; way things are moving; current (of the times); tide (e.g. of public opinion)
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)
angry voice; one's voice when shouting with anger
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
to form a circle; to stand in a circle
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
power; might; authority; spirits; vigor; vigour
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
slightly (blushing); suddenly (getting bright, flaring up, flashing on, etc.); distractedly
to be lit (e.g. candle, lamp, light bulb); to be lighted; to be burning
crater; caldera; burner (e.g. on a furnace)
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)