bye-bye; good-bye; see you; saying goodbye; parting
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
lizard; skink lizard (Scincidae spp.)
blood relationship; blood relative
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
natural monument; protected species (animal, habitat, etc.)
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
government; administration
environment; circumstance
breeding; raising; rearing
something or other; somehow
chafing; grinding (e.g. teeth); binding tightly; pulling tight (e.g. a bow); rotating quickly; hurting sharply
thoroughly; carefully; deliberately; seriously; fully
to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to be near (a certain age)
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
Latin (language); Latin-American; Latin; Latin; Roman
simply (cannot); definitely (cannot); absolutely (cannot); by no means
canned food; tinned food; confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
chief; head (of an office, of a laboratory)
intelligence operative; spy
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
to forget to say; to forget to mention
international; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan
smuggling; bootlegging; illicit trade
to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate
gargling; rinsing one's mouth
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
suit (clothing); suit (playing cards)
after this; henceforth; henceforward; from now on
antiquity; the previous era
student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
wrapping (something) in a bamboo mat; wrapping someone in a bamboo mat and throwing them into a river (unofficial Edo-period punishment)
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger