hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
civilized person; civilized people
crowd; community; group; herd; gathering; assembly
fluid mechanics; fluid dynamics; hydrodynamics
second grade; medium quality; average; middle class; secondary grade
mode of life; ecology; (animal) territory
repeated at intervals; every other (day, week, month, ...)
succession; continuation; series; sequence
considerably; greatly; a lot
with a clatter; with a rattle; empty; bare; raspy (voice); gravelly; with a gargle
interval between (trains, buses); terminal dwell time
soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
no!; no no!; no, not at all
to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across
commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
to clasp together (esp. hands); to entwine (e.g. fingers)
work clothes; business suit
worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class
each; (arch.) you (plural)
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
remarkably; noticeably; considerably; appreciably
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
to use X as a selling point
progress; pace; carriage; step; stage
way one walks; one's walk
to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on
to hunt a spy; to put a tail on someone; to stalk
downhill; downward slope; descent; decline; waning; ebb
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
third stage; three stages
standing tree; standing timber
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to re-grip; to re-wrestle; to regroup (after some adverse event)
to go downhill; to go down a slope
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly