reigning; controlling; dictating
brilliant achievement; spectacular feat; splendid accomplishment; remarkable deed
personal affair; one's own affair
to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted
bad; wrong; evil; no good; wicked; reprehensible
please; kindly; I beg of you; by all means; without fail
tediously; repetitively; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length
preface; introduction; preamble
to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
young person; servant; errand boy in a samurai family; person of lowly status
rebel; traitor; insurgent
particularly; only; in the case of
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
information; experience; observation; seeing and hearing
to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
brush tip; first on a list; head; chief
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
just managing; with great difficulty
rumor that appears to be quite true (rumour)
departure (of a boat, plane); setting sail; leaving port; putting out to sea; takeoff
to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out
to burn to a crisp; to scorch
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
trifling; little; few; slight
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
to sink (into); to get depressed
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
to hear a rumor; to get wind of
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
to whine; to make feeble complaints
to understand; to make out