decoy (for hunting); stool; lure; decoy; stool pigeon
to volunteer; to undertake a challenge
hot blood; warm blood; zeal; fervor; fervour
to join forces; to cooperate
grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL
mwahahaha (evil laughter)
to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
principle of laissez-faire
to smoke (a cigarette); to behave as ...; to accelerate; to rev up
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
to crown; to cap; to prefix with; to start with; to begin with
in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics
buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking; raising the ground level (with fill)
extortionist that threatens to disrupt stock-holder meetings; sokaiya
manners; customs; sex service; sex industry; sex-oriented entertainment
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
close (relationship, connection, etc.); intimate; near; close (together)
to have a relationship; to have relations
exposing; unmasking; laying bare
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
arrest; apprehension; capture
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
end; tip; extremities; terminal
presumption; assumption; estimation
neighboring countries; surrounding countries
armed forces; military; troops