Vocabulary

shaking; trembling; pitching; rolling; oscillation

children's song; nursery rhyme

pan; pot; saucepan

difficulty; trouble; hardship; shortage

sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams

delivery

development; growth

beautiful woman; (a) beauty; belle; good-looker

packing; wrapping

gem; jewel; precious stone

membrane; film

fog; mist

eternity; permanence; perpetuity

lightning; thunder; thunderbolt

visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; inquiry (about someone's health); expression of sympathy

fungus

doctor's office; doctor's surgery; clinic

energy; vigour; vigor; liveliness; spirit; life

dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration; desiccation

perception; intuition; the sixth sense

living room (Western style); sitting room

teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine

section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph

respect; honour; honor

fault; defect; flaw; weak point; weakness; shortcoming

consideration; taking into account

conquest (of a difficulty, illness, crisis, etc.); overcoming; surmounting; bringing under control

bone fracture

magnetism

helper; assistant

scholarship; stipend; bursary; grant-in-aid

wheat

bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

cloth; fabric; material; texture

saving (e.g. time, money, resources); economising; economizing

annotation; explanatory note; comment

parking (a vehicle)

power outage; power failure; power cut; blackout

flute; fife; pipe; recorder; flageolet; shakuhachi

sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana