war; fighting; fierce competition
to be honest; to be frank; honestly; if you want to know the truth
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
sympathy; compassion; pity
sense of helplessness; feeling of powerlessness
to torment; to torture; to afflict; to harrow
extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off
to throw away; to abandon; to give up; to relinquish; to lay down (one's life)
to rescue (someone); to save; to help (out of a difficulty); to save (spiritually); to redeem (from sin); to deliver (from suffering, distress, etc.)
to be blessed with; to be rich in; to abound in
fundraising; collection of contributions; donating; donation; contribution
person concerned; interested party; related party
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
pretending not to see (something); turning a blind eye (to); closing one's eyes (to); looking the other way
by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
diagonally; obliquely; slantingly; slantwise
cool; calm; composed; all right; fine; OK
complacency about peace; naive belief in continued peace; ignorance of global conflict
blunt; to the point; direct; outspoken; frank
arranging in a line; standing in a row; parallel (electronics, computing, etc.)
feeling of a house or a room
to move forward; to move on
rut; wheel track; furrow; groove; (fig.) footsteps; (fig.) wake
they; those guys; those fellows
random; by chance; haphazard; hit-or-miss; unplanned
flight; desertion; escape
course; route; path; process; stages
calculation; computation; reckoning; consideration; calculation; estimation
terrain; geographical features; topography
slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
road; path; way; set of practices; moral education; Buddhist teachings; Taoism
to find out; to discover; to locate
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
rapidly; quickly; briskly; booming (e.g. of a drum)
spiced sake (served at New Year's)
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away