Vocabulary

height of the neck

calculating, profit-or-loss mentality

bill; check

endurance; perseverance; patience

complaint

crybaby

feigned tears; crocodile tears

Paleozoic era

reddish-purple

classicist

classicist; classical scholar

classical music

the classical period

antiques dealer

old friend

well-pickled vegetables

numismatist

taking great pains

account of the hardships one has encountered

bitter liquid; bitter experience

wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); absinthe

hurting oneself (to trick an adversary)

ascetic

(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain

grievance machinery; complaints department

coldest time of the year; bitter suffering

unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty

intense heat

solid state physics

solid fuel

solid (body); solid matter; solid food

solid fuel

fixed interest rate

hard-boiled egg

individualist

ontogeny

one's native place

one's former master

the wisdom of the ancients

(voluntary) manslaughter