essential; important; crucial; vital; main
heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.)
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends
to stop talking; to break off; to pause
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
lost property; something dropped and left behind
to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute
someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
food; foodstuff; prey; victim
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
relation; connection; relevance
atmosphere; mood; a certain air; presence; (Earth's) atmosphere
acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation
shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early
flowery words; rhetorical flourishes
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
infiltration; sneaking in; going undercover
admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on
acting rashly; running wildly; runaway (process); reckless baserunning
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
to be at a loss for words
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
(I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); (I) fancy (that)
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both