to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder
first experience (of something); first sexual experience
coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK
suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently
provision; supply; payment; allowance; grant
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
tone-deafness; amusia; tone-deaf; off-key; having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
insertion slot (e.g. coins, tickets); input port
to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade
acceptable; satisfactory; approval; being in favour; Pass (grade); Fair
to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
making a person, pet, etc. wait (before being permitted to do something); postponement; putting on hold
legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small
to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; to make temporary payment on a person's behalf
when; how soon; how long until
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
to lose (money, etc.); to waste one's (time, etc.); to have one's efforts come to naught
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
heave-ho; oops; yes; yeah
tension; mental strain; nervousness
apprehensions; misgivings; uneasiness; anxiety; fear
poisonous; toxic; addictiveness
empirical; from experience
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry