satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
study; pursuit of knowledge
talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve; to transfer (phone call)
prize beyond one's reach; unattainable object; woman who is out of one's league; (lit.) flower on a high peak
self-defense; self-defence
function; facility; faculty; feature
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
together (with); at the same time; in one lump; in the same category
scene; spectacle; sight; view
general; popular; common; typical
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary
buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper)
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out
what proportion; what percentage
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
foreign car; imported car; paddle wheel
seeing someone off and later welcoming them back; taking someone to and fro
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
woman's heart; female instincts or psychology
element; component; factor; element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
to finish reading; to read through; to figure out; to fully anticipate
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)
telephone number; phone number
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not