apron; apron (airport); apron (stage)
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
interval; break; pause; spare moment
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
temperature; body temperature (human, animal)
to contact; to get in touch with; to check in (with)
staff; stuff; stuffing; filling
to keep (a person) waiting
grill (esp. fish grill); grilled food; grill room; restaurant serving grilled food; (radiator) grille
growth period (in children)
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
to be stingy (with); to skimp (on)
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
in proportion to; just as much as
extreme weight gain; sudden weight gain; rapid weight gain; ballooning up
to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
the eve (of a festival) (e.g. Christmas Eve)
sound (of a sentence); euphony
eighth day of the month; eight days
persistence; single-mindedness
mostly; almost; nearly; roughly; approximately; about
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
to make short work of; to eat up quickly
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
to stuff one's cheeks; to fill one's mouth (with food)
to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
no problem; no objection; it doesn't matter
the way one works; one's working manner
stoic; stoical; self-disciplined; abstemious; Stoic (philosopher)