enclosing (e.g. with a letter)
manners; courtesy; etiquette
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
eight-tenths; ostracism; casting someone out; type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
one's first campaign; one's first battle
senior; veteran; old-timer
parade; review (of troops)
good contrast; marked contrast
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
to shoot dead; to shoot to death
to take over for (someone); to stand in for; to substitute for; to replace; to take the place of (something)
present (brought by a visitor); gift
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to make someone fall forward; to do thoroughly
to parry; to sidestep; to dodge
admonitory speech (e.g. to students); words of admonition
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
to fall; to drop; to fail (an exam); to lose (a contest, election, etc.); to be unsuccessful
evacuation (to the country); spreading out (troops); deployment; dispersal
folding; collapsible; telescopic
shore; bank (of a body of water)
counter for ships; counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen); (arch.) counter for items carried in a bundle (e.g. fish, birds, arrows)
common reed (Phragmites australis)
big bend (esp. in a road)
crank (mechanism); narrow, crank-shaped road (on a driving school training course); crank (on an early movie camera)
to cut down; to chop down; to fell
checking someone's identity; identification (of a suspect); identification (by a general) of the severed head of an enemy killed in battle
capturing alive (an animal or person); something captured alive
edge of town; outskirts of a village