cutting edge; leading edge; forefront; tip; end
remarkable; striking; brilliant; splendid; spectacular; wonderful
to become excited; to grow lively
poor village; desolate village; lonely village; remote village
having not the slightest idea
to have learning; to be educated
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
identifiable; personalized
that's not a nice thing to say; that's not a nice way of putting it; there was no need to say that
enlightenment; illumination
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
hanging low (of clouds); remaining low (of sales, stock prices, etc.); remaining sluggish (of the economy, market, etc.); hovering (around a low level)
concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
nuclear fission; karyokinesis (division of a cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis)
chain reaction; nuclear chain reaction
used (ticket, stamp, etc.); spent (fuel, battery, etc.)
unclear; indistinct; obscure; opaque; inarticulate; dim
to order; to command; to appoint
suppression (of a riot, revolt, etc.); repression; putting down; quelling
exposing; unmasking; laying bare
basin (e.g. between mountains)
land reclamation (from sea)
channel; duct; passage; watercourse; flow channel
(navigable) canal; waterway
bank; weir; embankment; levee
(raised) footpath between rice fields; ridge between rice fields
embankment (for road, railway, etc.); raising the ground level; fill
shallows; shoal; rapids; current; position; place