home-schooling; studying at home
hard-to-use space (in an apartment, etc.); dead space (artillery, etc.); (respiratory) dead space
attention; kind attention; courteous attention
to rearrange; to resequence
cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)
dismissal; sacking; discharge
incoherent; wandering; vague; rambling; whimsical
point-scoring; scoring Brownie points
decipherment; interpretation; making out; identification
to work together (in the same class, workplace, etc.); to be classmates; to sit side by side; (lit.) to put (one's) desks side by side
strongest (candidate); likeliest (winner); top (suspect)
maternity leave; paternity leave
leadership skill; leadership ability
ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over
to reach an agreement; to come to an understanding; to compromise (with); to get along well with
the teaching profession; education of laity
number of days (times) one has attended
complication; confusion; disorder
majority group (party, faction)
consultation; discussion; conference; collusion; bid-rigging
each individual; each person
rubbish; trash; garbage; worthless thing
cheating (on an examination); cribbing
turns and twists; ups and downs; meandering; complications; vicissitudes
diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels
abstention; nonparticipation
sunset; sundown; end; close; year-end; end of the year
guilty conscience; feelings of remorse
to be manageable; to be able to handle
deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score; standard score
to be tired of; to be sick of; to get fed up with
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
to the limit; to the full; as much as possible; with all one's might
to mourn for; to grieve for; to condole with (the bereaved family, etc.); to hold a memorial service for; to hold a funeral service for