follower; attendant; valet; servant
to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour
(rock) crystal; high purity quartz
disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)
of course; certainly; naturally
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
ring; playing field; stadium
five times (as much); quintuple; fivefold
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
high and low; rise and fall
to establish a lead; to distinguish (between); to ascertain or tell the difference (between); to discriminate
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
sense of unity; sense of oneness
atmosphere; mood; a certain air; presence; (Earth's) atmosphere
as much as possible; as far as possible; whenever possible; if (at all) possible
reality; actuality; hard fact
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
but; however; provided that
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run
unevenness; bumpiness; roughness; imbalance; inequality; unevenness
seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading
proposal; offer; request; application
partner (esp. in manzai); companion; partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)
to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain
long sword; minute hand (of a clock)
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
to rub; to scrub; to scrape