scandal

rift: ​a serious break in the relationship between people or organizations

in retrospect: thinking about a past event or situation, often with a different opinion of it from the one you had at the time

ebb: a point or condition of decline

absorbed: very interested in something/somebody so that you are not paying attention to anything else

spool: a round object around which you wind such things as thread, wire or film; a reel together with the film, wire, thread, etc. that is wound around it

canister: a flat, round metal container used for storing film

fire sale: a sale at low prices of things that a company or person owns, usually in order to pay debts

scour: ​to search a place or thing carefully and completely in order to find

Dumpster: a large open container for putting old bricks, rubbish, etc. in. The Dumpster is then loaded on a lorry and taken away.

grime: dirt that forms a layer on the surface of something

squabble: to argue noisily about something that is not very important

smear: to make something dirty or greasy

yank: to pull something/somebody hard, quickly and suddenly

stash: to store something in a safe or secret place

glee: a feeling of happiness, usually because something good has happened to you, or something bad has happened to somebody else

abscond with: to leave secretly and take with you something, especially money, that does not belong to you

go ballistic: ​(informal) to become very angry

a litany of: (formal) a long boring account of a series of events, reasons, etc.

grievance: something that you think is unfair and that you complain or protest about; a feeling that you have been badly treated

falsehood: the state of not being true; the act of telling a lie

head off: prevent, block

bequeath: to say in a will that you want somebody to have your property, money, etc. after you die

Treasury: (in the UK, the US and some other countries) the government department that controls public money

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Online Dictionaries Used:

hk.dictionary.search.yahoo.com

www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

www.merriam-webster.com