confrontational attitude (stance, posture)
to strengthen; to emphasize; to emphasise
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
context (of a passage); line of thought; context; environment; circumstances
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
in proportion to; according to; depending on
origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
without accident; uneventfully; without ...
in a whisper; in a low voice; in undertones
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
soon; before long; shortly; close (by); near; nearby
loss (of assets, profit, etc.)
person killed in action; the war dead
power relations; balance of power (between)
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
cooperation; conciliation; harmony; coordination
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
prediction; prophecy; prognostication
major war; great war; world war
faction; branch; sect; denomination; branching off
people; citizens; subjects; folk
trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no
ruler; monarch; sovereign
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
shudder; shiver; trembling with fear
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone