offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble together; to put together (in a slapdash manner)
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
subject (of study); course of study; department (of a university)
(single) bean; pea; something very small; tiny speck
optimization; optimisation
to the very end; to the bitter end; to the last; to the hilt; thoroughly
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
mediation; good offices; influential person; person of influence; (arch.) eloquence; (arch.) eloquent person
after-party; second party (of the night); second meeting
complete denial; complete disavowal; total negation
relieving; refreshing; satisfying
something said for politeness' sake; diplomatic language; honeyed words; lip service; empty compliment
interpretation; explanation; reading; construction
male-female relationships; relations between the sexes; sexual relations
obstacle; hindrance; impediment; difficulty
every ...; every other ...; at intervals of ...; with ... in between; ... apart
current student; enrolled student
successful candidate; successful applicant; person who has passed an exam
to take pains (doing something); to take great care
continuous; nonstop; consecutive; removing partitions (to create an open space); joining separate rooms into one
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
to soften; to moderate; to relieve
to go to meet (someone); to go to pick up
to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in
to notify; to advise; (arch.) to know; (arch.) to reign; (arch.) to govern (a country)
trudging (along); plodding; slowly and with heavy steps
causing concern; (lit.) bad for the heart
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; (good) idea; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over