ahá

• I see!

• billet, log

• to ride up

• to break off, to can, to cease, to chuck, to chuck up, to discard, to discontinue, to dismiss, to drop, to give over, to give up, to knock off, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay off, to leave off, to quit, quit, to relinquish, to sign off, to stop, to switch off, to take a pull

• mother ship

• mackerel

• cruise ship, pleasure-boat

• calamary, cuttlefish, polyp, sepia, squid

• to tool along

• margin of error

• regressive

• to react, to recoil

• surrender

• to leave, left

• reactive, reflective, reflexive, retroactive

• whaler

• to throw back

• backlash, reaction, reactiveness, repercussion

• posthumous

• retroflexed

• back cast