cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
to unite; to join; to do together; to confuse with
to gather; to collect; to assemble
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score; standard score
having said that; on the other hand
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
frank; candid; straightforward; openhearted; direct; outspoken
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
to be hard to deal with; to be an eccentric; to be idiosyncratic
as expected (positive events); as hoped for
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
to emit a voice; to emit a sound; to be able to speak
height (of body); stature
muscular; lean (of a company's operations, etc.)
to stick (to); to cling (to); to stay (e.g. in the office)
physical strength; brute strength; arm strength
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
physical education; PE; gym (class)
feces; excrement; number two
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
depression; low spirits; luxuriant (of vegetation)
to fall ill; to be taken ill
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
impact (on); (strong) impression; effect; impact (of a ball against a racket, bat, club, etc.)
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
individuality; personality; quirk; idiosyncrasy; character; individual characteristic
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...