fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
through (e.g. an intermediary, a medium); via; over (e.g. a network); across; by way of; by means of
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition
to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down
to fail to catch; to let slip; to miss
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
to be noisy; to be astir; to be abuzz; to be in commotion; to be aflutter; to be unsettled
substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around
advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist
dictatorship; despotism; autocracy; running (a company, etc.) despotically
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
Adolf Hitler (1889.4.20-1945.4.30)
sounding each other out; probing each other
to be solved; to be worked out; to come loose; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. of a ban)
to throw into disorder; to disarrange; to disturb (order, peace, etc.); to corrupt (public morals); to dishevel (hair)
rumour; rumor; hearsay; report
to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce
to answer; to fire back; to retort; to redo; to do over; to try again
one or two; a few; small number
overestimation; overrating; overvaluing
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
reveal of how a trick is done; disclosure of a secret (cause, source, etc.); exposure; explanation
to replace; to convert; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
rival candidate; rival; opponent; rival horse
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
you could say that; that might be so
to make an enemy (of); to turn (someone) into an enemy; to antagonize
variables; uncertain elements; uncertainties; imponderables
to not take seriously; to take lightly
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
that's true; of course; obviously
maneuvering behind the scenes; backroom deals; dodgy dealings
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
pouring one's energy into; focusing one's efforts on; concentrating on; committing oneself to