battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
continuously; constantly; incessantly
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
to feel; to sense; to experience
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to make progress; to develop; to evolve (method, style, etc.)
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
decrease; reduction; decline
golden age; prime; heyday; season (for fruit, vegetables, etc.); best time
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
in conflict; incompatible; out of harmony; running counter; mutually exclusive; clashing with
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
large number (of); many; majority
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
Slave Dynasty (of India, 1206-1290 CE); Mamluk Dynasty
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-
citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
looter; plunderer; pillager; marauder
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
science and technology; scientific technique
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission