congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
to break into song; to burst into song; to begin singing
piece; slice; cloth; sharpness; agility; counter for scraps, pieces, etc.
seats reserved for guests
elevated walkway through the audience to the stage (kabuki); honourable end to a career
upper tier; upper section; place of honor; place of honour; dais; raised part of floor
very important person; VIP
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
document; official papers
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through
man; male; masculine gender
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
to gulp down (a drink); to slurp
to drink up; to drain (cup)
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
obstacle; impediment; hindrance; handicap; impairment; disability
settlement; solution; resolution
scale; scope; plan; structure
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; one paragraph
all kinds of things; various things; large number of people
depressed; bummed out; down; heavy-hearted; heavy-spirited; feeling reluctant (to do)
to be able to manage somehow or another
opposite side; other side; other party
in the hospital; hospitalized
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
to go out and away; to leave
policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will