qui vive
on the qui vive
jealousy
cautionaries
palaestra
charge
bear down
belligerence
pitch
hostilities
belligerency
fierceness
tale of the tape
combatant
see the elephant
duel
Pickett's charge
in action
warful
saber rattling
sabre rattling
plain brown wrapper
warriorism
dueling
combativeness
embattlement
circumspection
bracing
gunfight
impact
warfare
skirmish
violence
watch
sharp
shock
raid
unwinking
action
alert
fight
warfaring
bicker
rush
up front
the British are coming
warriorship
affaire d'honneur
stand guard
commando
pistols at dawn
ward
warriorhood
sortie
wakeful
battlewards
engage
battleward
militaristic
debouche
midbattle
antivigilante
clash
supervigilant
guardingly
vigilantelike
battlezone
skirmishing
big bad
field of honor
armored combat fight
grapple
grappling
war-weariness
warpath
fight back
military science
warmongery
extended order drill
paramilitarily
wrestling
under attack
hand-to-hand struggle
vigilantly
wrestle
under fire
militaristically
open-eyed
at war
battle line
re-encounter
patrolling
warcraft
hypervigilant
alarm
reprisal
defensively
battleline
prefight

English words for 'a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle'

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