How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
confections; sweets; candy; cake
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
sadistic desires; sadistic feelings
father and mother; parents
permission; approval; authorization; to permit; to authorize
non-alcoholic; alcohol-free
feeling that something has come too late
(appropriate to) time, place, occasion
one's share; one's portion
to pour (into a vessel); to fill (a cup, bowl, etc.) with; to dish out (food or drink)
thickly; viscously; sleepily; drowsily; dozing off
light eating; spare diet; not eating much
side effect; adverse reaction
freebie (e.g. with a purchase); something additional; price reduction; discount; exaggeration
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
red; red color (colour); red-colored; red; communism; the left
public agency; public institution
one's long-cherished desire
going out; one's best clothes; formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)
it is assuredly (that)...; can say with confidence that it is...
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word
when you get to the destination
to rest; to suspend; to give relief
seat; bench; temporary job while looking for a better job or until one marries
dependents; family members that one has to support; encumbrances; things that tie one down
being orientated (towards); pointing (towards); directional (e.g. microphone); -oriented
an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging