work (e.g. of art); production; harvest; cultivation; technique
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
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)
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
cutter; cutting tool; box cutter; utility knife; (tailor's) cutter; cutter (boat)
manageable; tractable; easy to care for; easy to deal with; easy to handle
sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)
deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing
to be opposite; to face each other
to lie down; to throw oneself down
warp; curvature; curve; arch
to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)
slumping; flopping down; heavily rotating
to sprawl; to lie sprawled; to stretch oneself out; to lie relaxed on one's side
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
table; chart; list; memorial to an emperor
minimum; at the very least
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded
soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
example sentence; illustrative sentence; model sentence
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
estimate (of costs); budget
primary school; elementary school; grade school
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
question collection; problem collection; problem set; workbook
priority; order of precedence
conversion (e.g. yen to dollars); change; exchange; translation (numerical)
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
general idea; concept; notion
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper; to clench one's teeth; to grit one's teeth
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge
unasked for; unnecessary; uninvolved
to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize