1. “I've been meaning to talk to you about...”
2. “Two’s company, three’s a crowd!”
3. a pile
4. aborigines / aboriginal
5. adequate
6. annex / annexation
7. attractive trade partner
8. cream of the crop
9. critical concerns
10. Double Ten!
11. crushed
12. destiny / destination
13. disembark
14. early bird <> night owl
15. extra credit
16. family emergency
17. getting on
18. groggy
19. hitch
20. keep one’s fingers crossed
21. one’s days are numbered
22. one’s first crack at something
23. Pro <> Con
24. productive
25. reconcile / reconciliation
26. referendum
27. re-unification
28. reverse / reversible <> irreversible
29. rivalry / to rival/ long-time rivals
30. routine
31. run of the mill
32. segment of the day
33. self-determination
34. stressed out
35. syllabus / “Green sheet”
36. Taiwan Strait
37. to be fraught with
38. to be in the dog house <> to kiss and make up
39. to convince <> to be unconvinced
40. to cram
41. to ditch someone
42. to do chores <> to run errands
43. to doze off
44. to engage with
45. to hook up with someone
46. to knuckle down
47. to look into something
48. to lose sleep over something
49. to make a fuss over something
50. to pull one’s leg
51. to pull up one’s grade
52. to run
53. to slack off
54. to slate
55. unprecedented
56. up to / What’s up?
57. young at heart
To Walk
• Leisurely: meander, mosey, saunter, stroll, wander
• Slowly: edge, shuffle
• Quickly: hurry, stride
• Gracefully: parade, prance, strut, swagger
• Uniformly: march, pace
• Heavily: lumber, plod, slog, stomp, trudge
• Secretly: creep, sneak, tiptoe
• Childlike: toddle, totter
• Awkwardly: limp, lurch, hobble, stagger, stumble, trip
M-O-N-E-Y-!
• to make money hand over fist
• born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• lottery, windfall, strike it rich, hit the jackpot, nest egg
• foot the bill, pick up the tab, feel like a million bucks
• hard up, chicken feed, handouts, deadbeat, to pinch pennies, cheapskate, flat broke, scrap together, down and out, strapped for cash, live on a shoe string, penny wise and pound foolish, bottom dollar
