government office; public office
home page; horsepower; HP; half-pipe (i.e. in snowboarding); HP (i.e. a 'hit point' in a role-playing game)
optical cable; optical fibre
laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.); construction
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
passage (of people, traffic); passing; common usage
concealment; suppression; hiding
to dig up; to expose; to disclose
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
carpenter's square; instigation; suggestion
patterns of thinking; train of thought
perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly
in a bad temper; cranky; crabby
(school) class change; class shuffle; rearrangement of which students are in which teacher's class
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
to shrink back; to wince; to flinch; to recoil
absent-mindedly; idly; vacantly; doing nothing
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
procurement; purchase; buying; school store; co-op; school canteen
to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels
going back to the beginning (in a discussion, argument, etc.); returning to the fundamental points (of the issue at hand); discussion of how things began (in the first place)
to be awesome; to be extreme; to be incredible
common front; united front
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
higher rank; better position
specialized; specialised; boutique
town; city; municipal; urban
in its entirety; whole; wholly
to take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter
paying one's own expenses; going into business for oneself; working independently; person who earns their own living
deep dish; dish with a high rim; tureen
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
very small amount of money; penny; cent; nickel; dime
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
to gather; to collect; to assemble
stronghold; citadel; headquarters