one's usual practice, one's old trick; one's usual modus operandi, the same old tactic

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

procedure; method; way; a means (to an end)

conventionality, triteness

solution, settlement / (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made; resolution

(transitive) solve, resolve, settle (a problem, a trouble, a criminal case) / (intransitive) be solved, be settled / (intransitive) can be solved; be soluble

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

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

question, problem on homework etc. / a question; a matter (of time etc.) / a problem (something that needs to be dealt with); a trouble / an issue; a matter