to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
staff officer; military staff; adviser; counselor; counsellor
to pressure; to put pressure (on); to press
negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
to pitch camp; to set up camp
setting; installing; setting up (meeting, conference, etc.); stage setting; setting (of a novel, movie, play, etc.)
one's speciality; one's forte; one's strong point
(electrical) ground; earth; grounding; touching the ground; landing (an airplane)
distance (of a ski jump, baseball hit, etc.); carry (of a golf ball); flight (of an arrow)
unwell; in a bad state; not working properly; out of order; inconvenient; troublesome
review (of learned material); revision
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
increase and decrease; fluctuation
demonstration; presentation; stage show; performance
characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice
to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)
to bungle; to make things awkward
turret; watchtower; high wooden stage; scaffolding; wooden frame (of a kotatsu); yagura
many; a lot; much; multitude
board, plank or sheet shaped
to roar; to reverberate; to be well-known; to be famous; to palpitate; to throb
unmatched (unparalleled) accuracy
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene
each place; various places
to be prepared to flee; to become restless; to become agitated
to claim victims; to leave casualties
intensiveness; collecting; summarizing; putting together