degree; extent; (health) condition; state of health; adjustment; moderation; addition and subtraction
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; to beat fast (of one's heart); to throb; to pound
rubber band; elastic band
assembly hall; meeting place; venue; site; grounds
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry
elegance; grace; article; item; counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)
goods; merchandise; commercial items
start; beginning; build up; how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game
to stretch; to reach to; to stand on tiptoe
arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)
single sheet (of paper); single page
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict
to speak ill of; to disparage
to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want
official in charge; person in charge
to pluck (e.g. an apple); to pick; to tear off (e.g. a ticket stub); to break off (e.g. a branch)
luggage; baggage; burden; payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)
congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder
to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak
to rub; to scrub; to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.); to milk; to mash (a button); to spam (a move)
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
megaphone; bullhorn; loudhailer
tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
morale (of troops, team, etc.); esprit de corps
to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance
stage (platform); performance; show; stage (phase); part; stage
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below; to wedge; to play a wedge
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up