expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
being dotted with; being scattered
pillage; plunder; looting; robbery
to follow in succession; to happen one after another
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
to shoot through something (wall, body, etc.); to pierce (e.g. with an arrow or a look)
thief; robber; burglar; rebel; insurgent; traitor
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
difficult to ...; hard to ...
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist
to cheat someone out of; to wangle; to get; to obtain
connivance; tacit consent; toleration; acquiescence
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction; kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
main body (of an army); main force; these troops
shipping; shipment; forwarding
to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off
number of persons; personnel
to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
cleaning up; sweeping up; mopping up
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
intercept; interception; counter-attack
to happen to meet; to come across
clever; shrewd; canny; smart; quick; prompt
thoughtlessly; rashly; unwisely; halfway; half-done; incomplete
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically