active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation
practice; practising; training; study
compilation; editing; recording
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
too much; excessively; too
bolt from the blue; great surprise
at the height (peak) of one's popularity
popular song program on radio or television
journal; magazine; periodical
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
level; standard; level (plane); floor; spirit level; (surveyor's) level
the person concerned; the person in question; the said person
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
to quit one's job; to resign
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
in range; within the limits (of...); within (a) range
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
to break into song; to burst into song; to begin singing
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
focus (e.g. photographic); focal point
to become settled; to be fixed
to imitate; to follow; to emulate
interval; step; pitch; key
breathing of a sleeping person
soundly (sleeping); fast (asleep)