environment; circumstance
practical; pragmatic; hands-on; nuts and bolts
to begin talking; to open up
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
precision instrument or machine
to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
with a click (door sound); with tenseness or firmness
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize
commuting to school; school commute
to overdo; to do too much
elder sister; effeminate man
subtle; delicate; difficult; complex; doubtful; questionable
never mind!; don't worry about it
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
reasoning; logic; persuasion
from beginning to end; from start to finish; from first to last; end-to-end; all the way through
rote memorization (memorisation); rote learning; indiscriminate memorizing (memorising)
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
encompassing; covering (exhaustively); including (all of); comprising; comprehending
sputtering; smoldering; repeated thrusting into something (sword, needle, etc.); pricking repeatedly
circuit (electric); cycle (e.g. Krebs cycle)
short; shortstop; short (circuit); short hair; short selling
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
table; chart; list; memorial to an emperor
to fill in (field, entry, etc.); to fill out (form); to post a message (e.g. on a bulletin-board); to store; to write (data); to flash
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in