life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
card (information, filing, etc.); card (greetings, congratulations, etc.); (Western) playing cards; credit card; debit card; match; game
obedience; submission; resignation
to exert oneself and win; to gain (victory)
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
person who introduces someone; introducer
bribe; sweetener; douceur
make no progress; remain unsettled
questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)
biggest; greatest; largest; maximum
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
transactions; dealings; business
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
National Personnel Authority
indictment; prosecution; complaint
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
one's own faction (of a party)
concealment; suppression; hiding
process; course; mechanism
disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty
cancellation; rescinding; release; calling off; lifting (sanctions); delisting
stripping (of rights, office, etc.); deprivation; divestiture; forfeit; revocation
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
script; screenplay; scenario
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
letter; missive; note; mail
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire
to be damaged; to receive damage
property; fortune; means; assets
obligatory supply (of goods to the government, e.g. during wartime); delivery (to the government at a fixed price, e.g. of rice)