lying down and getting up; waking; getting up; living (with); staying (with)
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
to introduce; to compare; to check; to adjust; to pull into place
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
pupil; student; schoolchild
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
everything; for (to) everything; (in) anything
small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow
indicate reason; infers some protest
readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation
loan shark; high-interest consumer finance firm
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
timid; faint-hearted; wimpish
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else
to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to
consolation money; compensation for breaking off relations (e.g. with a mistress); settlement
to approach; to draw near
to be different from what was previously said; to be different from what was promised
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
to approach; to draw near; to get close; to get acquainted with; to get closer to; to get to know
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
regret; repentance; remorse
revamping; reshaping; rearranging; reorganizing
knowing; (an) acquaintance
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
account book; register; ledger
absolutely no smoking; complete smoking ban; total ban on smoking
careless; sloppy; faulty; using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
registry; entry; book-keeping; signature