Vocabulary

day after day; for many days; for days on end; day in, day out

unpacking (esp. after moving house)

unable to focus on ... (due to being preoccupied with something else); unable to concentrate on ...; unable to settle down to ...

to lay the blame on; to put the fault on

manner; style

reverse-imported vehicle (esp. high-displacement motorcycles meant for sale outside Japan)

American shorthair (cat breed)

cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances); machining allowance

with a flash; brightly; dazzlingly; sparklingly; brilliantly (shining)

aluminium; aluminum

youth film; teen movie

to turn over (in one's sleep); to toss and turn (in bed)

unreliable; undependable; untrustworthy; not to be counted on

notebook

slight reduction; small decrease

welding (of thermoplastics or non-ferrous metals)

to try out the food at various restaurants

upper respiratory tract; upper airway

nocebo (negative response to a dummy drug)

nocebo effect

number of the beast (666)

beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer)

hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.)

doe (female deer)

venison

hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig)

wild boar

peccary (Tayassuidae spp.)

peccary

collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu)

Judges (book of the Bible)

Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity")

Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong")

resonator

speech organ

sound-producing organ (esp. of land-dwelling vertebrates and insects)

sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)

epiglottis

articulatory organ (i.e. the tongue, teeth, lips, etc.)

bzzz