stiletto; dagger

this knife

[is] high class; elaborate; lavish; luxurious; fancy; first-class

[is] utterly mystified

righthand; right-hand person; specialty; right-hand man.

enforcer of the law; police

[is] well-mannered; respectful; submissive; humble; reverent

Mukden, former name of Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province, China; the ancestral capital of the Manchus, who ruled China from 1644 to 1911

to aim for; to hope for

to work hard; be diligent; be industrious hard; be persistent; strive; make determined effort

animal manure

[Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] make-up; makeup; cosmetics

[alternate spelling of เม็ตริกตัน]

crematorium for royalty

[เมอะไร] [used in a question] when

a man's first wife

"Whenever a gathering like this arises, it generates many different waves of criticism regarding the appropriateness and propriety of the monks' behavior. Some agree; some disagree."

[sports journalism] France

chief of work; job boss

[แม่น้ำสาลวิน] the river Salaween, which originates in Himalayan Tibet, passes south through Yunnan, into Burma, and into the Andaman Sea

though; if; provided; even; even if

[establishing a conditional link between phrases]

[a most vulgar curse]

[แมลงหวี่] gnat; fruit fly, a species of fly; Drosophilia sp.

Monica [an English given name]

insufficient; incomplete; lacking; not having attained

[is] unlimited

[ไม่เดิน] <subject> doesn't walk; <subject> hasn't walked

[ไม่ต้องการทำ] <subject> doesn't need to do

[is] not yet forgotten; just recent

nonpartisan; impartial; indifferent; unbiased; unprejudiced; nondiscriminatory; objective; uncolored; neutral