standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
outbreak of war; starting a war
one's own army; one's own team
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
evacuation; withdrawal; revocation; repeal; retreat
whole army; whole team; all armies; all teams
orders; instructions; directive; command
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
to invade; to attack; to breach; to penetrate
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
to attack; to assault; to assail
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
both armies; both teams; both sides
sanity; consciousness; soberness
honorific affix; honorific prefix
smirkingly; smugly; broadly
to wait and see; to see how the land lies
secret; private; surreptitious
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
so-so; passable; now, now; my, my
to shout (in anger); to yell
ill-bred; vulgar; boorish
nature; property; disposition
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
to be in focus; to come into focus
in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period
vindictive; tenacious; persistent; spiteful; vengeful
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
to be at a loss for words
celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
to deceive with smooth talk; to wheedle; to give someone a snow job
fluent (in a language); flowing
doubtful; questionable; uncertain; disputable; suspicious
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence
pronunciation; production of sound