hot-tempered; quick to take offense; quick to take offence; irascible; touchy
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
proper; appropriate; due; suitable
generation; lifetime; age
to build up; to establish (one's reputation)
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
news; word; tidings; omen
double-dealing; duplicity; equivocation; (lit.) double-tongued
local specialty; special product (of a region)
right (to do something); authority; power
peerless; matchless; unparalleled; unrivalled; unequalled; incomparable
yoke; constraints; oppression
to bite at; to snap at; to nibble; to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into
league; federation; union; alliance
leader (of an alliance); leading power
to take advantage (e.g. of a weak situation); to size up (e.g. customer when setting a high price)
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
effect; result; worth; use; avail
so-and-so; who?; which people?
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to line up; to put in a row; to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to link; to put together
average; mean; balance; equilibrium
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
hitting a ball; batting; stroke
citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
to increase; to add to; to augment
mobilization; mobilisation