Vocabulary

receipt (of money); receiving

rotation (e.g. of a duty); taking turns

(your) daughter; young woman

to work hard; to try hard; to strive; to endeavour; to endeavor; to devote oneself to

life; vitality; verve; vigor; vigour; animation

remaining an idle spectator; looking on unconcernedly (doing nothing)

natural growth; wild growth

(among) one's friends; (within) one's circle

blighted; withered

medical history; case history; clinical history

big snake; (large) serpent

monologue; soliloquy

cloth; dress material; clothing fabric

ban; prohibition; taboo; something forbidden

decrease; reduction; fall

shell heap; shell mound; kitchen midden

giant; woodsman; alpinist

essence; quintessence; flower; glory

earth science; geoscience

beanbags; jackstones; cueball

(barbed) wire entanglements

broad-minded; open-minded; openhearted; generous; magnanimous

accepting with pleasure

sulfuration; sulphuration

expected; anticipated; hoped for; expectation

nutrient; nutrition

rumor; rumour; gossip; report

sailor; seaman; mariner

free-range rearing; letting (animals) roam freely; pasturing; grazing

condensation; formation of dew

steel tower

gap; narrow space between things; interstice

overlapping; piling; stacking

disliking a certain food without having tried it

moral duty; moral obligations

without accident

keeping an alternative up one's sleeve; two-stage preparation

on-the-spot investigation or inspection; raid

piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper

specialization; specialisation