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to slip through the dragnet

prototype kilogram

pivot hinge (using extensions on the top and bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)

musket (male Japanese sparrowhawk)

pressurizer

to bring up a subject

justifiable cause for noncompliance with the law

nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

filhos (traditional Portuguese dessert)

high level (radioactive) waste

magnetic moment

to allocate

sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

entrance ceremony (when students enter a dormitory)

Nosema bombycis (microsporidian parasite responsible for pebrine)

emergency tasks

assassin bug (any insect of family Reduviidae)

critical angle

manas-vijnana (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)

Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)

law of conservation of mass

photographic magnitude

red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

to stick it out (until the end)

decay chain

racemose inflorescence (any indeterminate simple inflorescence)

labor standards inspector (labour)

decompression sickness