bring-your-own (e.g. food and drink); carry-on (e.g. luggage)
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
sanity; consciousness; soberness
open; public; official; overt
history of; experience of
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
to take someone along; to be accompanied (by)
repatriation; return; (electrical) feedback
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning
continuation; continuance; going on; resuming
best moment to take a picture; right timing (for a photograph); photo opportunity
to release a shutter (camera); to click a shutter
pretending not to recognize (recognise); feigned ignorance
to bite at; to snap at; to nibble; to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into
soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself
great delight; great satisfaction; rapture
sneak photography; non-consensual photography; peeping photos
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
seamanship; (the art of) navigation
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...
saltpeter; saltpetre; niter; nitre; potassium nitrate
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide
refined; genteel; graceful; decent
gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow