payment; provision; benefit; performance
loan; lending; favor; favour; creditor; method of lending
money to cover the cost of preparations or arrangements
direction; orientation; suited to; suitable for; tendency; inclination
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
no wonder; little wonder; after all; as expected; which isn't surprising
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
crossing; traversing; traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west); cutting horizontally
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice; to speak emphatically
haggardness; emaciation; wasting away; being tired out; being worn out; exhaustion
one's home country; one's homeland
(only) one option; one possible choice
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
high-speed craft; high-speed vessel; fast ferry
the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
military force; force of arms; strength of an army
deployment; disposition; posting; stationing
reserves (esp. troops); reserve army; potential members of some group (e.g. the elderly); people at risk (e.g. of a medical condition); wannabees
outbreak of war; starting a war
to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
to this extent; to this degree; this much
deviation; inclination; offset; polarization; polarisation
priority; order of precedence
great numbers; numerical superiority
be (that) as it may; having said that
useless; vain; aimless; idle
to make good use of; to use to one's advantage
to attack and overthrow; to utterly destroy
in a great quantity; plentifully; greatly
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different