glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)
to look out on; to overlook; to face (a situation, crisis, etc.); to meet (e.g. death); to deal with (an issue); to attend (e.g. a function)
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
barrette; hair clasp; hair slide
Hamilton (New Zealand); Hamilton
beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
human; human-like; as a person
omnivorousness; polyphagia; omnivorous; polyphagous
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
tension; mental strain; nervousness
fat; grease; blubber; lard; suet
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
to have an ulterior motive; to have an axe to grind
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)
Völkerwanderung; great migration in Europe, 4th to 6th century CE
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
to alert; to get one's attention; to draw one's attention
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
everywhere; all over; throughout
mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else