Vocabulary

Mercury (planet)

sluice gate; water gate; flood gate

random thoughts; occasional thoughts; desultory thoughts

platemaking

green light (traffic)

intention; plan; purpose; expectation

red blood cell; erythrocyte

requisition; requisitioning; seizure; confiscation; impounding; retaining (e.g. deposit)

cicada; locust

absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)

downstream

surface mail (by ship); sea mail

advance warning; previous notice; prior announcement

total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; being wiped out

grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments

musical play; opera

starting (e.g. of an engine); engaging (e.g. of a lock)

poor village; desolate village; lonely village; remote village

atoll; circular coral reef

implication; significance; connotation; depth of meaning; complications of a problem

fake (work); counterfeit

magic; conjuring; sleight of hand; legerdemain

quick-wittedness; tact

affectation; pretension; posturing

constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone

sister-in-law (spouse's younger sister or younger brother's wife)

guest appearance

backward flow; backflow; countercurrent; reflux; regurgitation

inhalation

poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury

lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger

raising one's hand; show of hands (e.g. for a vote)

torpedo

offering

rhapsody

bust (sculpture); half-length portrait

being amazed; being horrified; being taken aback

part; section

part; section

honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat