tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining
part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
encouragement; spurring (on); cheering (on)
appreciation; thanks; gratitude
faint hopes; dim prospects; little hope; unlikely (to be successful)
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
light; easy; non-serious; minor
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
to become locked (e.g. of automatic locking)
space; interval; space character; whitespace
tenacious; persevering; persistent; sticky
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
space (room, area, outer space)
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to be prudent; to be complete; to be thorough
cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging
to follow another's example
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
reconfirmation; double check
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought
admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited
instead of; replacing; on behalf of
(actor) relying on acting skills (rather than good looks, etc.)
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)