reality; actuality; hard fact
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
to employ; to hire; to charter
income; receipts; revenue
one's property; personal effects; one's belongings
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
diligently; assiduously; industriously; beavering away
notebook; account book; register
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
those (near the second person)
to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
study; diligence; discount; reduction
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
bedside; near one's pillow
note (letter) left behind; will
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
to care for (the sick); to nurse; to attend (someone's deathbed)
stealthily; secretly; in secret
to sigh; to breathe a sigh
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
sleep-talking; nonsense; gibberish
residential area; quarter; neighbourhood; neighborhood
patching (clothing); darning; cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.); gathering
length and width; length and breadth; four cardinal points; every direction; as one wishes; as one pleases
waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
at a stroke; with a single swoop
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
scrap wood; waste wood; waste; waste material; scrap material