interested person; volunteer; supporter
(temporary) closure of school
opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
journey; course; itinerary; stroke (of a piston); throw (of a switch)
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very
all; completely; totally; entirely; thoroughly
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)
to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to
freely; at liberty; at will; as one likes
lower grades of primary school (first, second, and sometimes third grades)
of great promise; with a promising future
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
passion; enthusiasm; zeal
to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
as one wishes; the way one wants; to one's satisfaction
to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock
board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board
hard ball; regulation ball
to rebound; to recoil; to splash; to have a repercussion; to have a reciprocal effect
to return a blow repeat; to turn back; to rewhip; to plow up; to plough up; to come and retreat
physical strength; the strength of one's muscles
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
unreliable; undependable; untrustworthy; not to be counted on
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track