to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation
supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; shapely; neatly; cleanly; without trouble; clearly
living; lifestyle; living room
cheese; tee (piping); T-joint; cheese (said when taking a photograph)
hum (of a TV, radio, etc.)
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
severe (illness, disability, etc.); serious
bad taste; poor taste; gaudiness; nastiness; nasty behaviour; perverse disposition
to concern; to be related
people; (all) persons; everyone; (arch.) you (usu. plural)
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
one night; one evening; all night; overnight
expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...
food; foodstuff; prey; victim
open (attitude, etc.); openhearted; frank; open (space); spacious
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
tomfoolery; monkey business
amorous adventure; love affair
excursion; field trip; school trip
catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)
real experience; actual observations
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
to accept; to receive (an application); to (be able to) take (food, medicine, etc.); to bear; to be affected by; to take damage from
(practical) application; putting to practical use; applied (e.g. physics, linguistics, research)
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern
to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)
to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait
(many people) sleeping bunched together in a single room; sleeping together in a huddle
argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
physical condition; state of health; shape
to become late; to fall behind; to lag; to pass (of time)
general classification; broad categorization
finding employment; getting a job