Vocabulary

section manager

senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area

to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

to grope for; to fumble

to find out; to dig up; to sniff out; to worm out; to pry out; to spy out

to find out

searcher; pursuer

(space) probe

search tree; decision tree

detective story

pale yellow; light yellow

light colouring; light coloring

light snow; light snowfall; thin layer of snow

hydrocarbon

carbide

coal miner

carbonate

carbonated water; sparkling water; fizzy water; soda water

carbon steel

carbon fiber; carbon fibre

coal seam; coal bed

sack for charcoal

submachine gun

short sword; dagger; stiletto

contraction; shortened form; abbreviated form

short hand; hour hand

short story

simplistic (thinking, idea, etc.); hasty

odd lot (e.g. in share purchase or sale)

(radio) terminal

scrap of cloth; odds and ends

edge

terminal equipment

fine-looking; beautiful; handsome; graceful; elegant

aesthetic; esthetic

gallbladder; gall bladder

courage; nerve; grit

birthday celebration

birthstone

to temper thoroughly