nothing but; none other than
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
municipal office; council; city hall
security force; public safety force
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; jab
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
dispersal; evacuation; removal; spreading out (troops); deployment
terrain; geographical features; topography
moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
followers; subordinates; being under someone's command
village headman; village mayor
hall; saloon; spacious room; reception room
to send out; to forward; to show (a person) out
underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap
writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books; cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for)
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
to strike back at; to bite back; to turn on; to rise against; to oppose; to defy
to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo
(person treated as a) plaything
horror film; horror movie
villain; baddie; the villain's part
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
hateful; abominable; poor-looking; amazing; fantastic; admirable
self-aggrandizement under pretense of aiding another (aggrandisement, pretence)
just because; even if; even though
to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)
to help out of (trouble); to extricate