protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
to pounce on someone's words; to cavil at someone's words; to trip someone up with their own words
to jump on someone's (verbal) mistake; to trip someone up; to find fault with something someone says
desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager
tribune (of ancient Rome)
exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much; misstatement; slip of the tongue; gaffe
to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
with one's own body; by one's own action; by one's own experience; barely (e.g. escape); narrowly
to make a move; to move a piece (e.g. in shogi)
ability to take action; ability to take initiatives; energy; dynamism; drive
insight; discernment; perception; perspicacity; acumen
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
sleeping outdoors; sleeping out in the open air; camping
watchdog; chaperone; watcher
preferential treatment; special treatment; different treatment; express delivery; special delivery
pork barreling; political patronage; handing out benefits to one's electoral district
disillusionment; disillusion; disenchantment
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
bent back; hunchback; stoop
to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
military gains; war results; fruit of battle
factional dispute; factional strife; rivalry between factions
bureaucratic world; government circles
emergency; extreme; great; extraordinary
official business; public business
bid for popularity; publicity stunt
selfish; egoistic; self-serving; self-interested
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
contents of a document (esp. of a letter)
to entrust (a person) with power of attorney (to do something for one)
commission; proxy; power of attorney; authorization
complete power of attorney
transfer (of authority, power, etc.); delegation; devolution
practical; actual; de facto; in essence; in all but name
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
to obey; to submit to; to serve (in the army, a prison sentence, etc.); to go into (mourning); to observe; to take (medicine, poison, etc.)
anything; whatever; whatever one likes
to clear; to make clear; to be unruffled; to look unconcerned; to look demure; to look prim