Vocabulary

hmm; well ...; humph; huh; pshaw; pish

olive (colour); olive brown

Caspian Sea

(corporate) restructuring

millennium

renewal; renovation; overhaul; update; repair; improvement

standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; go-to choice; staple; regular fixture

character (in a play, novel, film, etc.); dramatis personae

schedule; program; programme; itinerary

minivan; people-mover; 6-8 seat automobile with sliding door or doors

snowplow turn; snowplough turn; double-stem turn

Gulf of Mexico

to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see

nostalgic

shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; person who has withdrawn from society

home page (of a website or browser); homepage

spear

sales promotion

arrow

guardian

ghoul

stun

stinger

demi-

true

trooper

beast

lance

vampire

eighty; 80

musician

forty; 40

official copy of the family register

to assemble (e.g. goods into a set); to gather; to put together

trailer (for a film, TV show, etc.); preview

200; two hundred

Alzheimer's (disease)

dumping

nonbank banking

environmental protection