Vocabulary

black-market lending; illegal loan

wrist cutting; slashing one's wrists

wrist cutting; slashing one's wrists

lemon squash

electrical engineer; electrician

watertight; waterproof

bed bug (Cimex lectularius); bedbug

itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei)

hard tick; ixodid

moxa (dried mugwort leaf used in moxibustion)

Acanthamoeba

aldrin

endrin

Cryptosporidium

day care

therapist

therapist

far beyond one's power; not at all equal; no match for

recommendation; nomination

one (of); any (one of); either (of)

thumbscrew

carry (of digit, bit, etc.)

carry (of digit, bit, etc.)

to carry (of digit, bit, etc.)

official who arranges festival and rites

to strip a person of all his or her clothes

root clump

gaudy (esp. of makeup or clothing); garish; glitzy; loud

stone carving or engraving

stone inscription; epigraphy

languidly; loosely

the said person; the target (person)

today of all days

thesaurus; dictionary of synonyms

I, myself; one-self; by one-self

to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

original selection

to kick into the air; to kick up

if it is good

bandwidth allocation