graduate degree program; master's and/or PhD programs

[is] brilliant; smart; sharp

roof

then...; afterwards...; afterward; after some other event

[an idiom indicating how farmers work and the arduousness of their work] "back against the sky; face against the land/soil/paddy field"

row; tier; series in a cascade; stage; step

a yard (3 feet) in the imperial measurement system

[is] swollen; overflowing; distended; overcrowded

[งูหลาม] python

[หลาย ๆ] several

to get free from; escape

to forbid; restrict; prohibit

[to] return to; go back; come back

to write legibly; scribe in clear cursive script

[หวานแหวว] [is] very sweet

in Thai grammar, the name of the special function of the consonant ห in which it causes a subsequent low-class, sonorant consonant (ง, ณ, ญ, น, ม, ย, ร, ล, or ว) to determine its tone as if it were a high-class consonant. In this way, the syllable can obtain—depending on the vowel, final consonant type, and tone mark—a low, rising, or falling tone.

apartment

dining room

oyster

to refract; deflect

faucet; water faucet

hexagonal nut [to mate with a bolt]

[is] arrogant

a district in Bangkok

to have made an embarrassing mistake; to err publicly; to comit a faux pas

[is] brave, courageous, fearless, audacious, daring, bold

to breathe in; inhale

igneous rock

[is] rash; hasty; impetuous

[alliterative suffix]

to covet; take something for oneself