to discuss; to talk together
celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
president (of a nation); big man; boss; buddy
main spindle; main shaft; linchpin; pivot; principal axis; main axis
smoothly; easily; readily
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
modern state; modern nation
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
armed might; military power; the sword; force
use; exercise (of one's right, authority, power, etc.)
something like ...; something called ...
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)
paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
civil war; insurrection; rebellion; domestic conflict
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
armed intervention; military intervention
thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
(instruction) manual; operations manual; basic rules (pertaining to how a job should be carried out); (car with) manual transmission
real intention; motive; true opinion; what one really thinks
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
wait-and-see (situation, stance, etc.); waiting to see (how things play out); watching developments (before acting)
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
wafer cake filled with bean jam; (in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of
bombshell announcement (statement)
succession; continuation; series; sequence
what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything