| to bay | to make a long, deep sound, especially while hunting |
| to bay for | to demand in a loud, angry way |
| austerity | an instance of being plain and straight |
| auster | plain, straight |
| squarely | directly, exactly |
| to tap into sth | to make use of sth |
| to tame | to make sth easy to control |
| to right | to make sth right |
| entrepreneurship | an instance of taking financial risks |
| skewed | misrepresented |
| by and large | on the whole, generally |
| to take the brunt | to receive greatest impact of sth |
| lesser evil | sth that is less bad |
| milestone | an important event in development of sth |
| to file | to store in a file/ to move one after another in one line |
| to exult in sth | to show too much joy |
| entranced by sth | enchanted by sth |
| off the record | not official |
| to meet in the flesh | to see with own eyes |
| by all accounts | according to what everybody says |
| to abide by sth | to comply with sth |