decorations; offerings; mere window dressing
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
doing together (as equals); sharing; common (land, etc.); joint (statement, etc.); cooperation; co-operation
with a rustling sound; rippling (of a stream, etc.); murmuring; slurping down (ochazuke); quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter); with ease
advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
making light of; thinking little of; slighting; belittling; dismissing; contempt
one cause; one reason; one factor
military campaign; battle; war
willingness (e.g. to do something); eagerness; motivation; inspiration; determination; high aspirations
to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
offense and defense; offence and defence; batting and fielding
to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes
to lose one's temper; to lose patience; to have enough; to be exasperated; to become irritated; to get fed up
to yell; to rant; to rave
carefree; comfortable; at ease; easygoing; happy-go-lucky
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
to shout (in anger); to yell
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
bumping of heads; running into; coming across; encountering
advance or retreat; moving forwards or backwards; course of action; behaviour; remaining in one's post or resigning; staying or leaving
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
main body (of an army); main force; these troops
flight; desertion; escape
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to push aside; to push one's way through
to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)
military forces; hosts; troops
100,000; hundred thousand
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
tenacious; persevering; persistent; sticky
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
massing (of troops); gathering
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
to be able (to do); to be capable (of doing)