to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
cornerstone; main point; requirement; need; necessary; required
head; lead; vanguard; first
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
great speed; recklessly fast speed
charging (at the enemy) with a shout; rush; rushing (an activity); working at full speed; penetration; piercing
example; simile; metaphor; allegory
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
going into battle; departure for the front
disadvantageous; long (odds)
cram-free education; pressure-free education
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
negotiations; bargaining; dialogue; duet
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
commencing with; including
to take into consideration; to use one's discretion
malicious; deliberately mean
to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together
this sort of; of this kind; of the sort; such
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
right opposite; directly across; just in front of; face to face
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
sauce (esp. soy or mirin-based dipping sauce); hanging; something hanging (flap, lappet, etc.); (kendo) loin guard; kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character; -ass
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
to grab at; to grasp at; to clutch at
to make lively; to enliven; to make exciting
to overestimate (someone); to overrate; to think too highly of; to make too much of; to give (someone) too much credit
some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous
new menu item; new dish on a menu
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
sightseer; spectator; viewer
emotional strength; force of will
right on; dead on; fitting to a T; on the button; perfectly correct
furiously; passionately; indignantly
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side