frontispiece; an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book

under the pressure of public opinion

one day soon; some day soon

duty; obligation; assignment

a state of emergency

global warming

[ภาษากะได] [Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] Kadai; a group of languages related to the Thai group and spoken by a small population in southern China and northern Vietnam

dialect

regional dialect; vernacular

literary language

taxation; tax; rate; duty; levy; toll

soil; ground; place; land

(the planet) Mars

hometown; place of origin

consumable wealth; wealth; property; resource

Magadha, a kingdom of ancient India now called Bihar

[ภาษามคธ] the Bihar language

public opinion

Economic anthropology

path; way; pathway; trail

to turn away one's face in embarrassment

[following the name of a sovereign]... The Great

Mahatma

[colloquial slang, used comically] to die

[ประเทศมอริเชียส] Mauritius, a country in Africa

[is] loud; noisy; clamorous

[มักจะไม่พูด] <subject> will usually not speak

basket; casket

[is] cloudy; dim; gloomy; indistinct; blurred; not clear; obscure

[prefix for a verb, creating an attributive verb meaning '(is) absorbed, engrossed (in that action)]

[ความมัว] a dazed, hazy, or clouded feeling, in a fog

to bring; give to; toward me

[is] confident