artificial feeding (of wild animals); accustoming (a wild animal) to accepting food from humans; hand-feeding; to win someone over (with food); to butter up
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
the first half-year; first half of the year
poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord
article left behind (at a crime scene, after death, etc.); specimens
unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will
emergency food; emergency rations
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
enterprise; business; company; corporation
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
making use of; application; practical use; operation (esp. of a boat); steering
to become clear; to be made public
item; commodity; list of articles
containing (an ingredient, mineral, etc.)
enclosure; annex; separate sheet; accompanying sheet; attached paper
reference (e.g. to a dictionary, passage, footnotes); consultation; comparison; browsing (to a file or folder)
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
strike (i.e. industrial action)
on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)
usurpation; taking back; dispossession
one's own judgement (judgment); decision made without consulting others; arbitrary decision; dogmatism
flight; desertion; escape
going feral (of a species); reverting to wild; escape
to be believed to; to be expected to; to be feared to; to be poised to; to be considered to; to be likely to
breeding; propagation; reproduction; multiplication; increase
corresponding to; being applicable to; being relevant to; coming under; falling under; fulfilling (requirements)
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
guess; speculation; supposition
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
after that; afterwards; thereafter
devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding
plate; illustration; figure
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
assertion; declaration; affirmation
(phenotypic) trait; (hereditary) character; allele
to insert; to include; to incorporate; to install; to embed