sales promotion; hard selling
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
good-for-nothing; useless; worthless
sudden; lightning; immediate; shocking
to get damaged; to get chipped; to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt (reputation)
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
honest; upright; cleanhanded; unselfish
fastidiousness; love of cleanliness; uprightness; integrity; scrupulousness
to jump over; to leap over; to fly over; to fly across; to jump ahead (of someone); to skip over
straight-laced person; stubborn person
22nd day of the month; 22 days
to remain married for life; to live as a married couple until death; to succeed in marrying
(doing things at) one's own pace; (doing things) one's own way (esp. in an inconsiderate manner)
clumsy; awkward; unskillful; incompetent; inept; bungling
every person; each one; everybody
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
alumni association; graduates' association; alumni meeting; class reunion
attendance; presence; appearance
previously; already; for some time; for quite a while
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
sense of humor; sense of humour
useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
party (social gathering); party (group of people participating in an activity, esp. mountain climbing); (political) party
stillness; quiet; peacefulness
to be answerable (for); to take the blame
(sense of) rivalry; competitiveness
to collapse; to flop (onto)
to stand still (for a while); to remain in one place; to stand alone (of a building, statue, tree, etc.); to stand quietly; to wander about; to loiter
temporal region; regio temporalis (capitis)
blow; shock; strike; batting
completely; thoroughly; decisively; unsparingly; beyond recognition; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part
way out; means to escape; escape route
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
belatedly; though a little too late
to speak with an accent; to mispronounce; to be corrupted (of word)
firmly; flatly; definitely (wrong, different, etc.); absolutely; by far; far and away
blow; hit (on the body); beating
scar (e.g. from operation, injection); trace; mark (e.g. skid marks)