commencing with; including
hard-to-get-into university; elite university; highly-selective university
success; passing (e.g. exam); eligibility
special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial
sales promotion; hard selling
results; record; grades; marks
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
all kinds of things; various things; large number of people
trouble; troubles; worry; distress; sorrows; anguish
going out; one's best clothes; formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)
to twirl; to spin; to fiddle with; to change (e.g. wording)
to talk; to chatter; to tell (e.g. secrets)
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to go along; to walk along; to follow
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
lost article; something forgotten
mobile telephone; cellular telephone
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
contact network; phone tree; contact information for relevant people (in a given organization)
every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
address (e.g. of house); residence; domicile
to engage in lively conversation
uneasiness; vague apprehension; premonition
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
animal; beastly; carnal; sensual; brute
the sixth sense; intuition; hunch
to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
(short) jacket; blouson; windbreaker; jumper
cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)
one's share; one's portion
chilly; unpleasantly cold
to happen to meet; to come across
to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive
degenerate; pervert; deviant
to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
to relax; to feel at home
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team