meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
one's person; around one's person
exclusive; attached to; specialist
medical prescription; medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim
inexperienced; unfamiliar (with); unversed; lacking experience
person with a lot of experience; old hand; veteran (in a particular field)
far beyond one's power; not at all equal; no match for
dealing with (people, customers, complaints, etc.); receiving (callers, visitors, etc.); attending to; handling; serving
popularity; favour; defense; defence; agreement; receiver of technique (e.g. in martial arts)
difficulty; trouble; accident; disaster; fault; defect
looks (esp. of a woman); features; ability; capability; (public) estimation (esp. of a man); credit
to be the ruin of (a person)
occasionally; now and then; from time to time
past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
feeling; sense; impression
unmarried; not yet married
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
enclosing (e.g. with a letter)
to send (something unsolicited); to send without the receiver's request
private; informal; among one's people (group, friends)
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste
to put a stop to; to put a hold on; to put the brakes on; to call a halt to; to block; to shelve
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
slow; sluggish; dull; lax; sloppy; lenient
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
programme; program; plans; arrangements
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
the other day; some days ago; recently; a day in the past
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
six; six years of age; six o'clock (old time system)
cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection