to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
vigilance committee; vigilante corps
sister-in-law (spouse's older sister or older brother's wife); older stepsister; older adopted sister; non-blood-related older sister
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
village headman; village mayor
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
deep (of emotions, connections, etc.)
for a while; for some time; for a period
shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety
leading; foremost; preeminent; outstanding; one of the best
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
shifting (the burden) onto; ill effects; negative consequences; burden
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
end; tip; extremities; terminal
official business; public business
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
not factored in; not included in calculations; unaccounted for; unplanned for
for dear life; barely escaping alive
same room; sharing a room; occupying the same room
to be haggard; to be gaunt; to be emaciated; to be worn out (e.g. illness, worry)
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
government office; agency; board
to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)
succession; continuation; series; sequence
to escape death; to be saved from death
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
due form; official; formality
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
a lot more; much more; and then some; and plenty more than that