emergency meeting; urgent meeting; emergency session; emergency conference
dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now
baron; Irish cobbler (variety of potato)
inexcusable; unpardonable; can't be allowed to pass (without comment)
to call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess
to lose one's mind; to go crazy; to lose one's senses; to lose consciousness
very difficult to ...; nearly impossible to ...
blasphemous; profane; sacrilegious
phantom; vision; illusion
to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)
entering a room; studying under a Buddhist teacher
chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table
chair; chairman; chairperson; speaker (of an assembly); president (of a council, senate, etc.)
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
test (of ability, knowledge, etc.); exam; test (of performance, quality, etc.); trial; rehearsal
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
my goodness!; good lord!; holy cow!
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
every year; yearly; annually
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Scaphium affine)
investment; contribution; financing
leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar
to make light of; to ignore; to slight
leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving unattended; neglecting; abandoning
Reinhard; Reinhardt; Reinhart
PTSD; post-traumatic stress disorder
fit; attack; spasm; ictus; paroxysm; seizure
agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
invention; intelligent; clever; smart
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to
newcomer; new figure; new member; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards); Homo sapiens
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
quarrel; dispute; argument
to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...
complication; confusion; disorder; chaos; dispute; conflict
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
expansion; extension; magnification; enlargement; escalation; spread