army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
practice; practising; exercises; manoeuvres; seminar (student debates, presentations, etc.); practicum
war; fighting; fierce competition
battlefield; battleground
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
personage; person (deserving of respect)
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline
preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery
distant look; faraway look
studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)
to drive mad; to make insane; to cause a malfunction; to put out of order; to derail (a plan, etc.)
self-consciousness; self-awareness
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
rest; break; recreation; recuperation; convalescence
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
(one's) current position; current location; present position
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk
riskiness; (level of) danger
difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
more than anything; above all else
territory (of country, feudal domain, etc.); (arch.) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; picking out; singling out
magical powers; supernatural powers; spell; charm
to distribute; to hand out
to make up a shortfall; to cover a shortage; to compensate for a shortage; to fill a gap
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with