Vocabulary

impermanence

boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless

putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation

life; thread of life

countenance; features; looks

thicket; bush; coppice; brushwood

coat (of hair or fur); lie of (dog's) hair

eyesore; offensive sight; offense to the eye

to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on

problem child

brave warrior; hero; brave man

patriotic concern for the future of one's country

pump priming

(sudden, heavy) shower (on a summer afternoon or evening); evening shower

performance (at a party or banquet, etc.); side show; entertainment

to rock; to shake; to swing

intonation; accent; modulation; inflection

to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times

money-making

personal history; background; career

physics and chemistry

lining

to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to; to attend

to fight against; to oppose; to face

to come back (to); to return to a starting point

cube

exile; banishment; deportation

benign

sprinting; running as fast as one can

example sentence; illustrative sentence; model sentence

to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row

battle formation; military formation

recommendation (of a person for a position); nomination

(something) cooked with rice

to cook (something) with rice

sexual desire; sex drive; lust

milling; grinding into flour

west-southwest

pale; pallid

Stone Age