Vocabulary

US mainland; American mainland

US mainland; mainland United States

farofa; traditional Brazilian side dish made with toasted cassava flour

doping test; dope test; drug test

clothing alteration (esp. Western clothing); clothing repair

lost; astray; adrift; wandering

heavy drinking; hard drinking

FIRE (movement); Financial Independence, Retire Early

non-corrosive

lip sync; lip synch; lip-syncing

oral pathology

dancing that expresses the meaning of the song lyrics

industrial chemicals; heavy chemicals

measurement from the center of the neck to the cuff; sleeve length and half the width across the shoulders

Colosseum (amphitheatre in Rome)

first-in-class drug; innovative new drug

someone else taking a picture or video of oneself

injection (drug); parenteral preparation

network

supplemental ticket; hand-written (train) ticket

to be classed (with); to rank (with); to be respected the same (as); to be held in equally high esteem (as); to be comparable in greatness (to)

clinical training (for doctors)

initial clinical training (two-year postgraduate residency for new doctors)

specialty training (for doctors after two-year initial clinical training)

clinical

resident physician in specialty training

developmental care

direct current; DC

resident physician in specialty training

resident physician in specialty training

purse strings

fervently; desperately; fiercely; with full resolve

soft rock

excessive packaging; overpackaging

place of work

high-def; high definition; HD

cardholic; person too dependent on credit

eidograph

Morse Code

gerontophilia