one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities
(camera) shutter; shutter (for a door, window, etc.)
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
gradually; day by day; every day; each day
basket; basketball; basket cloth
(sudden) evening shower (rain)
lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger
submersion; inundation; being flooded
evaporation; disappearance (of people intentionally concealing their whereabouts); unexplained disappearance
heat haze; shimmer of hot air
steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive
to begin; to set about; to start
in turns; in series; in number order; by rotation
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
illustrated (with photographs)
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
official; governmental; public (use, matter, forum, etc.); common; being public knowledge; being out in the open
consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement
to walk away; to saunter off
residing; living; dwelling
to wring the neck; to strangle
accommodation charge; lodging charges; lodging fees
payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment
generation of heat; (attack of) fever; pyrexia
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
every month; trite; commonplace; conventional
cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
to make a splash; to draw attention
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into