compensation; equivalent value; consideration
working without pay; free service; work for nothing
free (of charge); gratuitous
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
to need; to call for; to require
fee contingent upon success; contingency fee; completion bonus
many people talking noisily; chowing down; scarfing down; roughly (of actions)
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
to hear; to be told; to know; to receive (order); to undertake; to comply
master; Your lordship; My lord; husband
to smirk; to grin broadly
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
to come and go; to go back and forth
to fail (in getting a job); to miss out (at fishing, hunting, etc.); to be left out; to be crowded out
to follow another's example
makeshift; temporary expedient; stopgap measure
mint (e.g. peppermint, spearmint, etc.); Japanese peppermint (Mentha arvensis var. piperascens)
nausea; sickness in the stomach
to smell sweet; to be fragrant
Satori; folklore monster that can read minds
mysterious; bewitching; alluring; enticing; enchanting
slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose
to be sullen; to be offended; to be huffy; to be stuffy; to be stifling; to be muggy
cannot be helped; unavoidable
to be tired of waiting; to wait impatiently
every time; whenever; as; whether; in (either case)
self-consciousness; self-awareness
pointing out; identification
fatigue; weariness; exhaustion; tiredness
to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one
not a chance; not likely; oh no; yuck; fault; defect