Vocabulary

Japan

(animal) feed; fodder; pet food

to learn; to study; to take lessons in

groin; thigh; crotch; crutch

urgent; pressing; immediate; prompt; express

to suit; to match; to become; to be like; to suit (someone)

to abate; to weaken; to be emaciated; to be dejected; to be perplexed

serious; earnest

exact calculation; squaring of accounts; adjustment

frost

sleeve

horizon (related to land)

lateness; tardiness; arriving late

to go past; to pass; to pass by

to be able to ...; can ...

yearbook; almanac; annual

departure (of a train, car, etc.); starting; leaving

to punish; to penalize; to penalise

beauty parlour; beauty parlor; beauty salon; hairdressing salon; hair salon

to defend against; to protect against

to lose one's way; to get lost; to go astray

to divide

nodding off (while sitting); dozing

emphasis; stress; highlighting; underlining; underscoring

manners; behavior; behaviour

to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed

to weaken

to weave

opposition; resistance; insubordination; defiance; hostility; rebellion

to let fly; to make fly; to send flying; to blow off (e.g. in the wind); to launch; to fire

bundle; package; parcel

gist; main point

to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind

to discuss; to talk about; to deal with (a topic)

to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to grow weary of; to get fed up with; to get sick of

to increase; to add to; to augment

to fill; to become full (of); to be filled (with); to brim (with)

just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

gas; vapour; vapor; gaseous body