steel; steal (baseball, basketball)
folding chair (with tubular metal frame)
dark (menswear) suit (midnight blue, black, etc.)
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to underestimate; to make light of
handling things like an adult; behaving like a mature grown-up
something or other; somehow
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
international law; law of nations
international; diplomatic intercourse
agreement; rules; code; protocol; convention; bylaw
to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)
snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation
my personal (e.g. opinion)
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
(talent) scout; recruiter; scouting; headhunting; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts
fallen scraps; scatterings; leftovers; remainder; student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.)
division of work; sharing out the work; splitting into groups (e.g. to search for someone); separating into parties
official announcement; proclamation
brow; forehead; prominent forehead; beetle brow; not catching anything
collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash
to laugh off (a rumor, worries, etc.); to laugh away
retro; nostalgic; old-fashioned
uneasily; restlessly; erratically
experience; history; record; career
veteran (e.g. soldier); battle-hardened; seasoned; (of) long military service
soldier; warrior; person of courage; strong person; very capable person
to give the stamp of approval
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
even further; and then some; even more
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation
to be curious; to wonder; to marvel