debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
one day; (on) a certain day
thief; robber; burglar; bandit
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip); to reflect upon; to digest
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
reward; compensation; collateral; security; turning to look behind
condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
trembling; shivering; jiggling; wobbling; bouncing
to take the lead; to lead a group; to be in the vanguard
encouragement; inspiration; rousing; stirring up; raising (e.g. morale)
strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject
scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow
to get mad; to be highly offended; to get pissed off; to get angry; to lose one's cool
hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy; squabble; quarrel; brief argument
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
getting closer; drawing nearer; being not much different; being near (age, skill, etc.); becoming close (i.e. friendly); becoming intimate
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
to do in place of or on behalf of (someone)
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
this world; this life; world of the living
finishing blow; coup de grâce
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; ejaculation
(sound of an) explosion or detonation; roar (of a machine)