to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
every year; yearly; annually
established practice; custom
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
formal marriage interview
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
of course; certainly; naturally
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
skipping rope; jump rope; skipping; rope-jumping
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
continuation; succession; series
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
number of times; frequency; count
order; rank; position (e.g. in a race); precedence
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
now that; since; so long as; because
overall victory; championship
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
sports-minded; sports-oriented