dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action
first day (e.g. at work, school); day one
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight; to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around
such; like that; that sort of; very
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
sound effect for slurping back up excess saliva (e.g. as stimulated by desire for food)
preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard
repeated at intervals; every other (day, week, month, ...)
to replace; to substitute; to shift; to change places
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)
light; right; right field; right fielder
giving someone a ride on one's shoulders; shoulder wheel (judo)
peep; peeping; peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
around the clock; day and night
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
charge; rush; dash; assault; attack
inadvertently; for no special reason; truthfully; unexpectedly; after realizing; without knowing
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
unwelcome; nerdish; unpopular
fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
person inside a cartoon body suit; voice actor; insider
maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)
cut end; section; opening; point of view; (different) perspective; new approach