Vocabulary

launch site (e.g. for rockets, missiles, or torpedoes); launch point; firing point

rocket-assisted projectile; RAP

bull-baiting (former British animal sport); bullbaiting

accelerator; acceleration device

to produce a monumental work; to achieve a monumental feat; to set a record that will go down in history

trench gun (esp. the Winchester M1897); combat shotgun

town doctor

to offer a tribute; to pay a compliment; to praise

(state) apparatus authorized to use violence (e.g. military, police); instrument of violence

fierce battle; intense combat

little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata); electric ant

I wish it were (so); may it be (so); I hope there is

bacon epi; bacon pain d'épi

to look down on; to treat with contempt; to mock; to make light of

preventive attack; preemptive strike

railway gun; railroad gun; railway artillery

armor-piercing

totalitarian

main battle line; primary front

first report; initial report; first news

heavy equipment

fighter-bomber

scleroderma; scleroma

health sandals; reflexology sandals; massage sandals

death march

raid

to defeat; to beat

nature of a disease

Buddhist image which must never be viewed

a.m.; before noon; ante meridiem

eye movement; ocular movement

transfer student; enrollee

voluntary withdrawal from school; dropping out of school of one's own accord

person who is carried away (e.g. because of love or success); flighty person; frivolous person

provisional admission; waitlisted acceptance; conditional acceptance

to lean back (with one's legs braced); to stretch out (one's limbs) and arch one's back

(crime of) defamation; libel; slander

charity bazaar; charity fair

men's dormitory

love quadrangle; four-way relationship