drought; long spell of dry weather
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
how; in what way; how about
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
satisfactory; desirable; favourable; seeming (to be); appearing
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
sowing seeds; planting seeds; scattering seeds
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
lately; recently; these days
calamity; disaster; accident
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss
spirit; mind; nature; disposition; intention; mind; mood
to bring (news, knowledge, etc.); to introduce; to bring about; to cause; to produce (e.g. results)
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
important matter; matter of great importance; serious affair; major incident; emergency
coastal waters; adjacent seas
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
ancient times; prehistoric times
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
earth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to choose; to select; to pick (out)
since; henceforth; ever since
to cross; to intersect; to associate with; to mingle with; to have a sexual relationship; to copulate
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
to show up; to appear; to turn up
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
to show signs; to have symptoms; to give indications (of); to bud; to germinate; to sprout