関与: take part in / 干与: be concerned with

巻頭: opening page of book; beginning of an essay; prefatory / 敢闘: fighting bravely / 完投: going the whole distance; pitching a whole game / 官等: official rank / 竿頭: top of a pole

関東: Kanto / 間島

お目々, 御目々: (childish) eye

看板娘: an attractive girl or young woman who stands outside a store to attract customers

目掛け, 目掛: (literally, archaic) to favor; to be partial to / 目掛け, 目掛, 妾: (by extension) kept woman; mistress; concubine

A Classical Japanese conjectural auxiliary verb: it looks …; it seems …

目を覚ます: to wake up

(dialect, Hakata) to steal

(shiritori) "ru-attacking": producing words that end with -ru , forcing the opponent to produce words that begin with ru- (a difficult task, as they are few in number and the majority are Western loanwords)