ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
built-in audience; regular customers
consolation party (held after failure or defeat)
to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at
to sit silently at a meeting
preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard
plaintive; piteous; doleful
closing of a park (e.g. theme park, botanical garden, etc.)
devoting (oneself) to; concentrating (one's efforts) on
palace; hall; shrine; hall of fame
people; citizens; subjects; folk
approximation; rough estimate; ballpark figure
suspicious-looking; fishy
to take a nap; to catch forty winks; to catch some Z's
park (public, amusement, etc.); parking
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
interval; space; valley; gorge; loophole (in a wall); crenel
zest for living; energy to live
meaning; significance; sense
extreme foolishness; grave stupidity; big fool; damn idiot; utter fool
(being in) the black; surplus; black letter
macaron (meringue-based sandwich cookie); French macaroon
transfer (of one's name into another family register); transfer (to another team, company, etc.)
to pitch in and help; to give someone a hand
expenditure; disbursement; expenses
to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out
refined; graceful; modest; cultivated; elegant; reserved
matter of life or death; life-and-death problem