hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding
combination; union; combined; joint; congruence
group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)
participation; joining; entry
(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
yes; sure; gotcha; sycophantically; servilely; fawningly
procedure; process; proceedings; formalities
to gain experience; to accumulate experiences
how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...
to act timid; to show diffidence; to be hesitant; to appear embarrassed; to look ashamed
so; like this; in this way; this much; to this extent
can't go on like this; can't stand it anymore; can't take it any longer
close; intimate; on good terms
shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
trust (in); confidence; faith; reliance
accounting; administration (of money)
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement
false phimosis; false foreskin; pseudophimosis
to show someone's true colors; to remove someone's mask; (lit.) to take the veneer off something
dirty joke; blue joke; indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk
to peel off; to come off; to be taken off
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
soft; tender; gentle; mild; light (topic, book, etc.); informal
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
fingertip; finger; toe tip; toe
to split finely; to splinter; to get frayed; to become irritable
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
taping (e.g. an injured joint)
behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness
pathological; morbid; unhealthy; diseased; unwholesome; abnormal
person with an unhealthy romantic obsession
attribute; property; attribute; alignment (in a role-playing game); element (of an enemy or attack); type (of dealt damage); (character) type
tenosynovitis; tendonitis; tendinitis
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less