being independent; becoming independent; standing on one's own feet (without the use of crutches, etc.)
Sparta (ancient Greek city-state); hard education; hard training; strict; severe
to teach; to take a teaching job
to complain; to make a complaint
to some extent; to a certain extent
to be saved up (of money)
prosperous; flourishing; popular; widespread; active; lively
erratic; offbeat; wild; unconventional; extraordinary; weird
idea; conception; way of thinking; approach; expression
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
visual hallucination; vision
to work hard; to sweat; to wash off one's sweat
to be on track; to be going to plan; to enter orbit
half; biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage; half (of a game); halfback; 9-hole half (of a round)
naughty; mischievous; unruly
boy; son; baby boy; young man
to act first; to act precipitously; to be rash; to get ahead of oneself; to jump the gun
bashfully; hesitantly; fidgety; restlessly; squirming; wriggling
leading; prominent; eminent; counting on one's fingers
as you can imagine; as imagined
within the family; in the home; domestic
feeling ashamed; feeling of one's inferiority
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
cruel; hard-hearted; harsh; unkind
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; age (when ...); for years (past)
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
loving couple; couple of lovebirds; happily married couple (who are always together)
itchy; creepy; feeling uneasy
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off
simply; merely; only; solely
to stop (plug) one's ears
feigning ignorance; acting dumb
to challenge (a person) to a fight
to subsist; to keep on living
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
nothing but (this); no more than (this); none other than
to give up (something as hopeless); to throw in the towel