protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker
estimate (of costs); budget
preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence
tremendous strength; (lit.) strength of a hundred people
mainly; chiefly; primarily; for the most part
colonization; colonisation
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
bellows (of an accordion, camera, etc.); cornice; rickrack; ricrac; pleated shape; accordion pleats
to hold a child in one's arms; to embrace a child; to provide for a child (children)
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
settlement; permanent residency
judging; inspection; examination; investigation; review
oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
precipice; cliff; flat head
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
to go ahead; to pull ahead
to make way for; to make room for; to get out of the way; to pave the way for; to open up opportunity
to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip
alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park
to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)
pilling; lint; furball; hairball; trichobezoar
pale; pallid; bluish-white
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
having no plan; acting without a plan; acting impulsively
locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent
kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
counter for chairs or seats
beauty of slender female legs
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently
to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize; to bind (something) with rope
smuggling; contraband trade
since some time ago; for quite a while; already