academic year; school year; year in school; grade in school
difficult to ... (physically or emotionally); hard to ...
to cheer; to applaud; to jeer; to mock; to make fun of
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
school rules; school regulations
to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated
attendance; presence; appearance
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
(school) athletic festival; sports day; field day
major cleanup; spring cleaning
participation; joining; entry
to profit; to benefit (from); to benefit (someone or something); to be beneficial to; to make good use of; to take advantage of
number of days (times) one has attended
repeating a year (at school); staying in the same class for another year
diligent; earnest; attentive to detail; brisk (working, moving); frequent (e.g. checking)
every second month; every other month
publication (of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); issue; issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.); raising (an event)
book; booklet; story book; pamphlet; notebook
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
emergency; extreme; great; extraordinary
technically accomplished; technical; polished
inexpert or untrained eyes
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
lottery; lot; raffle; draw
cheerful; buoyant; lighthearted
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
second-year student; second-year pupil; biennial; biennial plant
(very) unusual; unconventional; eccentric; novel; original; striking
to worry (about); to fuss (over); to be careful (about); to pay attention (to); to take (good) care of
comfortable (to live in); snug; cosy; cozy
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
morbid; unhealthful; insalubrious
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder; older person; predecessor
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb