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1 quick and skillful

2 agile

1 to show off one's military strength (idiom); to strut around

2 to bluff

3 to bluster

1 diabetes

2 diabetes mellitus

1 Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)

1 wife's elder sister

2 sister-in-law

1 tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)

1 flip-flops

1 the palest ink is better than the best memory (idiom)

1 (bird species of China) sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)

1 to serve in the army

1 shell carving

1 wife's mother, mother-in-law

1 (indicates that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately

2 as it happened

3 (indicates that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly

4 contrarily

5 against reason

6 (indicates that sb or a group is singled out) precisely

7 only

8 of all people

1 one's passion

2 one's obsession

1 locomotive

1 anaesthesiologist

1 to host a banquet

1 to lie in disarray

2 to cut across

3 to traverse