service industry; service sector
ultimate; final; last; eventual
impossible; unlikely; improbable
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
pair of lovers; girlfriend and boyfriend
plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
nostalgic song; golden oldie
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
after a long time; for the first time in a while
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
to complete decisively; to do to completion
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world
one's nature; characteristic; inherent; natural
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
greengrocer; fruit and vegetable shop
splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)
to produce (e.g. movie, play, show, event, musical recording, etc.); to design (e.g. new commercial product, restaurant concept, etc.); to create; production; creation; design
all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae); Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger); hollyhock
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate