to meet with, see, meet again or for the first time / to come across, meet by accident, bump into / to gather, to come together / to receive guests etc.

difficult / hard, probably impossible

either way, at any rate

no matter what / after all / at any rate

not ... at all

even if ...,...cannot

very, exceedingly, awfully / (before a negative form) not at all, at all, by no means

busy / restless, fidgety

busy, hurried / restless, fidgety

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend