partly open; in half bloom
recreation; diversion; relaxation
worth; merit; value; good point; redeeming feature; saving grace
grid-line (e.g. in spreadsheet); enclosing line
challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try
to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
regulation; adjustment; control
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
vertical line; bar line (e.g. in music)
fraction; odd sum; odd money; small change; (arch.) low class female servant
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case
exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
honest; respectable; respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.); person in a respectable occupation
to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to wash one's feet
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
physical examination; medical examination; health checkup; health screening
to hunt for a job; to seek employment
fee; charge; rate; material
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
one of these days; someday; one day
easily moved to tears; given to weeping; lachrymose
sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
sweet (voice, fragrance, etc.)
(giving) birth; childbirth; delivery; confinement
returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home