toil; labor; labour; painstaking piece of work; (a) work involving considerable effort
check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base
constitutional government; (arch.) exemplary government; (arch.) excellent government
mail service; postal service; mail; mail; postal matter; postal items
bank; banking institution
office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
company; group; class; troop; rank; file
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to strengthen; to fortify; to secure
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
tying up; restraint; restriction; arrest
several years; a few years
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
journal; magazine; periodical
publication; issue (of journal, newspaper, etc.); issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.); raising an event (software)
to stop; to prohibit; to forbid someone to do something
prohibition; inhibition; ban
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days
territory; domain; dominion; possession; sphere of action
expulsion; ousting; ejection; dismissal; banishment
legislative bill; measure; agenda item
fortune-telling; divination
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
indirection; indirectness
to be destroyed; to perish; to go out (e.g. fire); to destroy; to get rid of; to extinguish
clear; bright; plain; obvious
in low spirits; dejected; sad
proceeding quickly; flying (of time); rapidly; (arch.) running quickly (of a horse)
pickled vegetables; pickles
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness