advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
serve; serving (e.g. of food)
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
to get carried away; to get overly elated; to become over-excited; to get up to speed; to move into gear
nonchalant air; unruffled air
to say; to be called; to do
to have a warped view; to be jaundiced; to feel that one has been unfairly treated; to be jealous; to be envious
silence (not speaking); muteness
to glare at each other; to confront each other
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
with a single flash of light; glitteringly; sparklingly; twinklingly
to shine; to glitter; to be bright
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
free (of charge); gratuitous
to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for
instead; but (on the other hand)
wanted; wished for; in need of; I want (you) to
by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
to badger; to pester; to beg
to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes
to feel; to sense; to experience
confused; disordered; faltered; incoherent; inconsistent
doing whatever one pleases
to answer; to fire back; to retort; to redo; to do over; to try again
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
now; soon; already; yet; further; more