humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down; withdrawal (e.g. of candidacy); pulling out (e.g. of a race)
order; sequence; procedure
deadly serious; deadly earnest
commonplace (of people or animals); ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; found around every corner
accepting an order; receiving an order; orders received; closed won
flickering; flashing on and off; glaringly (bright); painfully (bright); prickling (pain)
to begrudge doing; to find bothersome
to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with
under one's arm; (in) the armpit
a short time ago; a while ago; for some time
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; cannibalization; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
spread; extension; influence; aftereffect; ripple
matter of time; question of time
to burst (open); to break; to split
passing through without stopping; passing by
to throw into; to dump in together
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
humanity; sidewalk; footpath; human realm
roost; nest; pad; crib; one's home
going back to sleep; sleeping in
appreciation of the yen; strong yen
having serious consequences; costing dearly; cannot get away with it; for free; for nothing; easily
low-altitude flying; having consistently poor results (grades, sales, etc.); barely scraping by; being on the verge of failing
chicken bones; chicken carcass
collecting; accumulating; gathering; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.)
will (to do something); drive; motivation; enthusiasm; eagerness
to be interested in; to take an interest in; to care about
to laugh off (a rumor, worries, etc.); to laugh away
hurried construction; hurried production; hasty manufacture; hasty formation
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
possession; occupation; occupancy
half moon; moon that is half-illuminated or less; crescent moon
(crop) damage from disease and harmful insects