married couple

two weeks, a fortnight; 2 weeks

to shine a light upon

to collect intelligence data

to teach yourself

to calibrate (against a standard)

dinner fork

[สะเก็ดไฟ] spark

[สะดุดใจ] [is] reminded of; jolted to remember; [has] (one's) attention caught

to reflect an aura of villany

[alternate spelling of สบู่ ]

to collect; amass; accumulate; bank; accumulated; cumulative

[การสะสม] collection, as in a coin or stamp collection

[นักสะสม] collector (of antiques, e.g.)

[สักที] once; even once; just one time

to condemn (a building)

pluralistic society

to have a hunch; to feel intuitively; to have a premonition; to sense

a sign of resistance

a bull

[variant of สัต] animal; living being; truthfulness; reality

peaceful state; peace; calm

[alternate spelling of สมบูรณ์ ]

[the mood in Thai literature or poetry that deals, traditionally, with expressing the persona's grief over parting with his love through bemoaning or lamentation, used predominantly in นิราศ ]

People's Democratic Republic

thirty; 30

myopia; nearsightedness

to shake one's head in refusal

[is] various and sundry

[Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] "saree" or "sari"; an outer garment worn by women of India and Pakistan, consisting of a length of lightweight cloth with one end wrapped about the waist to form a skirt and the other draped over the shoulder or covering the head

Social Security Office

to execute (a condemned person); to put to death