blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together
trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
to fill to capacity; to pack; to complete; to tessellate
audience; spectator; spectators
wave (on water); wave (electromagnetic, sound, etc.); wave (in hair); wave (audience); Mexican wave
to yearn for; to be in love with
performance; appearance (in a stage, film, TV show, etc.)
noisily (crowd of people talking); clamorously; in a hubbub; jabberingly; chatteringly; buzzingly
with a start; with a jump
lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question); lead up; pretence (pretense); show; pretending (to)
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
to close (at a certain point); to cut short; to round up (number); to revalue (currency)
stormy weather (at sea); poor catch of fish (due to stormy seas); poor turn-out; recession
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
political measures; policy
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
serious; severe; grave; acute
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
cracker; hard biscuit; hardtack
canned food; tinned food; confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space
flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity
intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); reception and protection
becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality
yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
cup sake; sake sold in a single-serve glass cup or can
appetizer or snack served with drinks; performance to liven up a bar; conversation to liven up a party
remote past; far ago; time immemorial
birth; creation; formation