honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
to feel awkward; to feel ashamed; to feel inferior; to feel shy (about doing something)
hesitantly; timidly; diffidently
to like; to love; to be fond of
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
munching; crunching; (lightly) scratching (an itch)
damp; moist; (slightly) wet; quiet; calm; peaceful
lodging together; training camp; boarding house
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
several years; a few years
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
contagious disease; communicable disease; transmissible disease; infectious disease; epidemic
example; instance; precedent; custom; habit
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
meanwhile; in the meantime
summarization; summary; generalization; review (by labour or political movements of past activities, results, etc.)
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
usual; normal; long (of time); old; for a long time; for a while
government course (curriculum) guidelines
to be based (on); to be founded (on); to be grounded (on); to be due to; to come (from); to arise (from)
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
to destroy; to break (by striking); to smash; to ruin (a plan, atmosphere, etc.); to spoil; to wreck
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)
to hang; to suspend; to hang oneself; to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth; to turn upwards (as if being pulled); to be slanted (of eyes)
to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
to pretend; to act (as if)
conference room; council room
in any case; regardless; either way; since it makes no difference anyway (you might as well ...); since it won't change the outcome; if you are doing it regardless
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind; mean; nasty
social studies (school subject)
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
plastic bottle (made of polyethylene terephthalate); PET bottle