Vocabulary

victory song; victory

outer fence; outer enclosure; outer block

every other day; every second day

optimist; easy-going person

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money)

discount coupon; discount ticket

omitting (reluctantly); leaving out; dropping

arguing (someone) down; loudly scolding; rebuking

rubble; debris; wreckage; tiles and pebbles

cracker; hard biscuit; hardtack

coronary; coronal; coronate

mid-winter; cold season

full payment; liquidation

successful execution; accomplishment; completion; fulfillment; carrying through

responsiveness; responding; sensitivity; sympathy; sympathizing; sympathising

exposure; sensitization; sensitisation

idiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase

acclamation; jubilation

nectar; sweetness

renting a room

direct selling; direct sales

to spell

three-legged bronze vessel (used in ancient China)

change of post

persons or animals added to a picture; incidental details of a picture

brazen (esp. of a woman's behavior); bold; brave

person from the countryside; countryman; countryfolk; provincial person; bumpkin; hick

electrolysis

electromagnetism

ionization; ionisation

fruitless effort; wasted effort; abortive scheme; futility

shod feet; wearing shoes

anger; wrath

perversion

hearing many times

seedbed; nursery; seed-plot

immorality; injustice; misconduct; impropriety; perfidy

invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain

no sleep or rest; working day and night

to take advantage of; to impose on; to exploit