stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation
(surprise) attack; assault; raid; charge
to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept
to swoop down; to glide down; to fly down; to land gently (on); to alight (on)
chestnut-color; chestnut-colour
accurate; precise; exact; appropriate; apt; right
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher; to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish
to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention
testimony; (verbal) evidence
agreement; accord; correspondence; union; unity; cooperation
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
side; beside; feature of a sword blade
to creep up to; to approach stealthily; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
red; crimson; scarlet; Red; communist
to dye; to colour; to color
spurt of blood; hot-bloodedness; hot blood; ardour
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
to reach; to get to; to arrive at
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)
movement (of the body); action; bearing; carriage; operation (of a machine, software, etc.); running
optimization; optimisation
to cut off (someone's head); to behead; to decapitate
such ... as; or some such
simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward; simple-minded; naive
left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one
shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word
straining; tensing up; trying too hard; overexertion; bravado; showing off
course correction; trajectory change; orbital adjustment
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
one's last moments; hour of death; death throes; agonies of death
transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay
there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary; does not match; out of reach of