local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
nth period (e.g. nth class in school day)
lunch break; noon recess; noon rest period
toilet; restroom; lavatory; bathroom
in a whisper; in a low voice; in undertones
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
feeling; sensation; mood; sensation of doing
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
playing the victim; playing the victim card
victim; injured party; sufferer
genuine; authentic; true; real
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
to be noisy (e.g. from people talking); to be discomposed (e.g. feelings)
to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry
had better ...; had better not ...
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
guess; speculation; supposition
scene; sight; scenario; setting
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
to forget to say; to forget to mention
to be needed; to be wanted
that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive about; to be fixated on; to obstruct; to hinder
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
difficult to be (in a place); not feeling like staying
to speak; to say; to vocalize
mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
defense; defence; guard; policing; security
order; system; structure; set-up; organization; organisation