Vocabulary

impatience; irritation; frustration; fretfulness

check (against); collation (with); comparison; verification

nitric acid

fine quality

good performance; good work; great success

upper tier; upper section; upper deck; upper row; upper step; upper grade

to happen to ride together; to share a vehicle; to (operate a) carpool

to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to sail across

ticket (for bus, train, etc.); passenger ticket

embarking (a ship); embarkation; boarding

surplus; balance

cane; walking stick; staff; wand

classification by colour; sorting by color; color-coding; colour-coding

consideration (for); thoughtfulness; solicitude; care; watchfulness; concern

new publication; new book

fresh taste; novelty; originality; freshness

house; dwelling; human habitation

human kindness; human weakness

bid for popularity; publicity stunt

to launch; to shoot up; to hit (a ball) high

penny candy; cheap individually wrapped sweets

ectogenesis; outside the body

fireproof

taking refuge; evacuation

backing paper (for a photo, painting, etc.); mat; mount

fort; battery

general situation; whole situation; larger picture; main point

great virtue

desktop; desk-top; tabletop

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid; to become impure (of a liquid or gas)

someone; somebody

entreaty; appeal; petition

carbonization; carbonisation

short wave

terminal

dango; dumpling (usu. sweet); doughboy

level ground

embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; humiliated; shy

one by one; in detail; minutely

farce; charade