at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
self-sacrifice; self-renunciation
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
absent-mindedly; idly; vacantly; doing nothing
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
very; extremely; excessively
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
childcare leave; leave taken after the compulsory maternity leave
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
had better ...; had better not ...
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
originally; by nature; from the start
capacity; volume; capacitance
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
coincident with; while; simultaneously
plural; multiple; several
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to panic; to freak out; to fly into a tizzy
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
meaning; significance; sense
particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not