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rest in English:

1. cease work in order to relax cease work in order to relax



English word "rest"(cease work in order to relax) occurs in sets:

Most common nouns 201 - 250

2. less less


You should smoke less.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Tom began reading that book three weeks ago and he still has only read less than half of it.
I would very much like the place where I live to be less polluted.
This drawing is less than great. He needs to do something with the line here at the back of the leg.
I've heard that people who eat vegetables and fruit every day are less likely to have a heart attack.
Some people look down on others because they have less money.
A building with high ceilings and huge rooms may be less practical than the colorless block of offices that takes its place, but it often fits in well with its surroundings.
You're much less likely to get a good position if you don't speak English.
The more countries a language is spoken in, the less important it is to sound like a native speaker, since speakers of that language are accustomed to hearing various dialects.
Since there are usually multiple websites on any given topic, I usually just click the back button when I arrive on any webpage that has pop-up advertising. I just go to the next page found by Google and hope for something less irritating.
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so that we may listen more and talk less.
And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.
While the bureaucracy comes up with sweetly technical terms like "less advantaged," the slums brim with malcontent.
Although Jane had one suitcase less than me, she still said she had too much to carry.

3. restless restless


Never choose a new vocation just because you are restless.
I feel restless when I have to wait too long for my friend to show up.
She felt restless all day long.
He can never focus on anything. He’s so restless.
The children always get restless when we are travelling.
restless sleep
It was a restless afternoon.
In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.
It's a great game for diverting restless kids on long car rides.
He's a restless type - he never stays in one country for long.
When exrtoverts are in quiet environments, they’re prone to feeling bored and restless.
He had only been restless and uneasy because of her absence
someone who is restless does not like staying in the same place for long and is always looking for new things to do and new places to go to
restless - unable to sit still because you are bored or worried
I fell asleep? "Totally." "Really?" "You were very restless, did you have a scary dream?"

English word "rest"(restless) occurs in sets:

Opposites and Suffixes

4. take regular study breaks take regular study breaks



5. rest rest


Rest in peace.
If you work too long without a rest, it begins to tell on you.
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
The squid ink in arroz negro blackens the rest of the ingredients enough to make the Spanish dish a Goth staple.
You may rest assured; I have no ulterior motive in making this donation.
Roger Ascham one day paying a visit to the amiable but unfortunate Lady Jane Grey found her employed in reading Plato while the rest of the family were engaged in a hunting party in the park.
In the fourth place, even if we succeeded in carrying off the bear cubs, we could not run up a mountain without stopping to rest.
If you want to set your mind at rest and relax at home, first you have to not think about work matters.
A good Tatoeba contributor adopts orphaned sentences so the rest of us can focus on Christopher Columbus and his zany antics.
He who seeks a flawless horse or flawless wife, may rest assured that even if his work he did forsake, nor bed nor stable would he ever fill.
Big brother, you've got a bad fever?! Never mind the bags, rest in the shade of those trees!
We had a fairly good idea what the world thought of the United States. Now we also know what the United States thinks of the rest of the world.
He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs and suddenly looked up and saw an elderly woman before him.
I feel smart today, to a degree that is in proportion to the amount of good rest I had yesterday.