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junction; crossroads; division point; parting of ways

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threshold; breaking point

2

revolution; rotation; turn; turning; inversion; handspring (gymnastics)

1

crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people); netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net; slingshot; catapult

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crossbow

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firearms; missile; projectile weapon

1

thickheaded; slow-witted; phlegmatic; slow (of one's movements); sluggish

1

easy to use

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because of this

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when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...

3

height of prosperity

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stamina; endurance; physical strength; strength of an organization (e.g. profitability, productivity, economic clout, stability, growth potential)

2

to choose; to select

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to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of

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disorderly crowd; mob; rabble

1

longbow

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pitching ability; counter for pitches

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catapult; ballista; mangonel; onager; trebuchet

1

to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain

1

personal combat; one-to-one fight

1

degeneration; retrogression

1

romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance

1

return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression

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conspirators; faction; cabal; clique

1

pike (freshwater fish, Esox sp.)

3

long and large; tall and large; grand; huge

1

edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)

1

saw; musical saw

1

form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence

1

notches; serration; indentation; notched; serrated; jagged

1

forward; frontward; ahead; rectangular front

1

diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)

1

advance; moving forward; progress

2

to stand on end (hair, fur); to bristle; to ruffle (up)

1

hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)

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line of spears held at the ready

1

to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip

1

cut; reduction; curtailment

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projection

3

shadow or cloud (e.g. on someone's happiness); shade; gloom

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quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion

2

gun; wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice; puffer fish

1

definite; final; decisive; conclusive

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Hus; Huss; Fusu

2

ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat

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by (means of); by doing; due to; via; through

1

to mark the end; to spell the end

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to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on

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Renaissance

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recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)

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