strict prohibition; ban; interdiction
powerful medicine; strong poison
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
rough-and-ready (medical) treatment; drastic remedy; drastic treatment; drastic measures; drastic steps
dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid; boring; prosaic
enumeration; citation; listing
miserable; wretched; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; sorrowful
it's been a long time; long time no see
to blow (on); to breathe (on); to pick (a fight); to provoke; to exaggerate; to ask (an unreasonable price)
career; occupation; personal history; professional experience; government employee who has passed the highest national civil service exam; carrier; carrier (of a disease-causing agent)
start; beginning; starting (e.g. a race); departing; starting point
to use (the same thing) for multiple purposes; to reuse; to work (someone) hard; to order around
to find useful; to think highly of
subject; theme; homework; assignment; problem (that needs solving); task
absolutely essential; indispensable; vital; critical
closure of a mine; abandoned mine; disused mine
storage; housing for equipment and machines; putting into computer memory; saving
frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
undersea cable; submarine cable
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
hostility; animosity; enmity
thin (air); weak (liquid); dilute; lacking (enthusiasm, consideration, substance, etc.); insubstantial; deficient
passing through without stopping; passing by
to hurry (up); to press; to urge on
thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters)
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
predation; eating prey; preying upon
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
gigantic stone; megalith; massive boulder
to beat (e.g. eggs); to whip (e.g. cream); to whisk; to lather
standing tall; towering; soaring