ministerial authority to grant permits and approvals
to remind (someone of something); to call attention to; to make sure of; to emphasize; to emphasise
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
to accept; to receive (an application); to (be able to) take (food, medicine, etc.); to bear; to be affected by; to take damage from
enquiry; inquiry; query; interrogation; ENQ
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
serious; earnest; honest; real; legit
avoiding or dodging responsibility
tedious; boring; being fed up with
a little; some; somewhat; amount; quantity; number
to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate
no matter how much time passes
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming
stomach; Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
extensive knowledge; erudition
to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
fluororesin; fluoropolymer; fluorocarbon polymer
vinyl chloride; chloroethylene
poly-; polyethylene; police; polyphonic
process; course; mechanism
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen
serious; not joking; straight
visualization (data, results, etc.); visualisation; making something visible (that was previously unseen)
base sequence (e.g. of DNA)