Furthermore if this person USES some words or expressions that you 're not familiar with, you can use the context of the rest of the conversation to help you figure out what they mean.
An astronomer might spend only a week or so each year observing at the telescope and the rest of the time measuring or analyzing the data acquired from large projects or surveys.
Instead of taking the entire body of a shark back to port, fisherman hack off the animal's most lucrative parts, its fins, and then throw the rest of it away.
From another section of the pouch, he extracted several wooden matches, counted them in his palm, and returned all but one to the waterproof compartment.
As for the rest, studies show a wide spectrum running from family firms, many of them poorly managed, to well-run high-performers, some of them kept to the mark by private-equity funds.