officiating priest; presiding priest at a ceremony; religious teacher; highly-ranked priest; guru; instructor (yoga, etc.)
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
high-end residential area; affluent neighbourhood
how many people; a number of people
to appease; to suppress; to calm
to hide; to conceal; to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard; to become quiet and inconspicuous
countenance; features; looks
to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
feel (of a material); texture
fortitude; firmness of character; hardihood; manliness
nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; nature (of something); character; kind
carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
vast; limitless; boundless
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
whereabouts; place where one is; position; location
light; lamp; obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)
to blaze; to burn brightly
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
one's every action; every single move; slight effort; least trouble; small amount of work
to suck (or draw) out; to aspirate
minimum; at the very least
waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to creak; to squeak; to grate; to grind; to rasp
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
maximum permissible level or dosage
to suck up; to pump up; to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit; to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
encroachment; erosion; corrosion
to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided
cracking; splitting; ripping; crashing; creaking; groaning
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
crafty; vicious; unscrupulous; sharp
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
to go out and away; to leave
footpath between rice fields
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)