immigration check; immigration inspection
director; executive; officer; official; person in charge
to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation; applause
several minutes; a few minutes
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
to be in danger of; to be liable to; to be at risk of
examiner (e.g. patent examiner)
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
at once; right away; promptly; quickly; right now; this instant
breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)
easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk
blip bleep; in short repeated movements
(a person's) appearance from behind; person as seen from behind; back view; retreating figure
countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to present; to do (for someone)
idle talk; chit-chat; gossip
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
to tower over the surroundings
long ago; previous; of a former age
tower; steeple; spire; stupa; pagoda; dagoba
formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious
inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic
splendor; splendour; gorgeousness; showiness; gaudiness; extravagance
plastics; synthetic resins
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series; -type
decoration; ornament; trimmings
shellfish; seashell; shell
open (attitude, etc.); openhearted; frank; open (space); spacious