at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
to employ; to hire (a servant)
landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land
South Pole; the Antarctic; Antarctica
interminable; unending; endless; boundless
breakthrough; great discovery
perhaps; possibly; maybe; by some chance
to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
order of chivalry; chivalric order
attendance; accompanying; following; adjoint
long ago; once upon a time
heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth
Atlantis; Atlantis (space shuttle)
interior; backwoods; hinterland; back regions
to (relax and) stretch one's legs out; to go for a further walk
Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean sea (oceanography)
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
to sink; to go down; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish
a long time ago; in those days
extremely; terrifically; super
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea
both extremities; North and South Poles; positive and negative poles