Vocabulary

overproduction; careless manufacture; churning out (substandard goods)

exposure

courteous reception; honorable treatment; honourable treatment

etiquette; courtesy; manners

(gun) salute

chilled dessert; frozen dessert

falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin

genius; beauty; charm

miraculous (miracle-working) water

bituminous coal

integrity; uprightness

four-handed performance (on the piano)

allied forces; the Allies (e.g. in WWII)

purgatory

complicity; implication; involvement

briquette (charcoal or coal)

wrought iron

chaste, strong-minded woman; virtuous woman; heroine

upright man; patriot; hero

blazing sun; scorching sun; hot day

schizopetalous flower

(power of) understanding; comprehensive faculty

estrangement; alienation; sowing discord; driving a wedge

reading in turns

traffic accident; automobile accident

gonococcus (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)

neighboring country; neighbouring country

rotation of crops

copying

milepost; milestone

elderly spinster

one's old bones; old man

hexahedron

staying at home or indoors; living in seclusion; retirement

articulation

wandering; jobless; unemployed

dew point

surface mining; open-cut mining; open-pit mining

travelling expenses; traveling expenses

affinity; family relationship