desolate field; withered field
fires set off in early spring to burn off dead grass; bush fire; field fire; grass fire
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
in an instant; instantly; in a moment; instantaneously; in the twinkling of an eye
to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes
too much; excessively; too
toxicity; virulence; toxic; virulent; poisonous
contagious disease; communicable disease; transmissible disease; infectious disease; epidemic
sticking (in one place, position, etc.); settling; becoming established (of a custom, system, etc.); taking hold; fixation (photography); fixing
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
Siberia; cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake
discovery; detection; finding
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
cultivation; nurture; culture
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
very great; enormous; serious
biological warfare; bacteriological warfare; germ warfare
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover
private; non-governmental; non-official; folk; popular
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
mobilization; mobilisation
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval