circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
people; men and women; each person; everybody
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
achievement; attainment; accomplishment; realization
to gather; to collect; to assemble
admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled
slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling
unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless
to stop by; to drop in for a short visit
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
door; gate; opening; title page
to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive
reception (desk); information desk; receipt; acceptance
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
joint establishment (esp. schools of different levels or different courses of study); establishment as an annex (e.g. of a school); juxtaposition; placing side by side
several people; a few people
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
food and drink; eating and drinking
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
middle-aged spread; weight put on in middle age
surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
pupil and (dark) iris of the eye
steepness; steep place; harsh (look); sharp (tongue)
to freeze (from fear); to be unable to (too frightened to) run
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
to stiffen; to become stiff
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement