thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal
unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness
division of labour; division of labor; splitting into groups (e.g. to search)
career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
mental fatigue; worry; boredom
to feel relaxed; to be soothed
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
being isolated and helpless; fighting (struggling) alone and unassisted
as; because; with; due to
temporary; provisional; to do something temporarily (esp. build temporary facilities); to do something provisionally
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss
wide area; wide view (of a digitally displayed map); zoomed-out view
along the river; riverside
to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
to flatter; to soft-soap; to sweet talk; to cajole; to instigate
to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration
to rebury; to refill; to backfill
rough estimate; rough calculation; expectation; anticipation; plan
collapse; break; cave-in; crash; (market) decline
(essential) utilities; lifeline
to dig up; to unearth; to uncover
slight; little; insignificant
guiding principle; single-minded policy; one's sole talent; single spear
double; two-fold; diplo-; dipl-; double-edged eyelid; double eyelid
small number; few; minority
only recently; just of late
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
disqualification; unfitness; noncompliance
to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect
to launch oneself upon; to make one's debut
scattering; diffusion; spread (e.g. signal across the spectrum)
January; first month of the lunar calendar
military operation; military tactics; military strategy
simultaneous; all at once