suspicious character (person, figure)
discovery; detection; finding
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
learning about the world; preparation for life in the community; work experience
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
association; union; guild
meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
street at night; making a night journey
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
academic year; school year; year in school; grade in school
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
silence; stillness; quietness
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out
to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
telephone call; telephone (device)
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
greeting; a fine thing to say
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
sake brewery; wine cellar; bar; bar-room