embossing a pattern; repoussé; drum signaling the end of a performance; serve (e.g. in tennis); drive (in golf); printout
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
condominium (usu. mid or high-rise); apartment building; apartment house; block of flats; apartment; flat
bed with frame made of pipes
convenience store lunch box
ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris
suitable; proper; appropriate; perfunctory; half-minded; sloppy
cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
tobacco; cigarette; cigar; tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
to hold in one's mouth; to bring with; to take along
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
to lean against; to set against
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
peephole; spyhole; inspection hole; observation window
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)
to go; to come; to lose; to be defeated; to be stumped (by); to be at a loss; to visit (a shrine, grave, etc.)
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
to knit (one's eyebrows); to furrow; to contract
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
featureless (face); expressionless; flat; flat (terrain); smooth
(a person's) appearance; looks
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
completely ordinary; plain; commonplace; everyday
thickness; profundity; depth; thickness; strong and tight group or wall of stones
every conceivable; every single; every possible; all kinds of
(about) medium; middle; average
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
something like ...; something called ...
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
there; the spot; the place; then and there; on the spot; immediately