National Reform Steering Assembly

the Diet

House of Commons (Britain)

liquidity

condition; nature; status; state

linear equation

[is] physically complete; healthy; robust

[is] reasonable; rational; logical

[abbreviation for สำนักงานสภาความมั่นคงแห่งชาติ]

[royal] the royal title placed in front of Her Majesty the Queen's name

absolute monarchy; despotism

competence; effciency

to apply for a job

stone age

to unite; to bring together dissenting factions; cement; connect; bind; join; combine; incorporate

to patch up; reconcile; to heal; to repair

photograph album

to quell unrest; calm turmoil

department store

[Thai phonology] short duration vowel

[medical term] advanced animal cell physiology

lotttery ticket

to cross paths; move in the opposite direction

a liquefied gas

[linguistics] svarabhakti, anaptyxis, a vowel segment inserted into a phonotactically impermissible cluster in order to make it pronounceable, a process called anaptyctic epenthesis

[Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] sweater

bilateral; two sides

to calibrate (against a standard)

[metaphor] [is] drained away; disappeared [as a problem]; fully completed

mint (herb)

to parting instructions before one dies or leaves