Vocabulary

public management

public interest; public benefit; public good

official document; archives

a moment; a minute; an instant

single amount (of money); one-off payment; lump sum

one room

draw (in competition); tie game

party; banquet; reception; feast; dinner

enka; traditional-style Japanese popular ballad

(wooden) pencil

depth; length

embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation

outdoors; outside

amnesty; pardon

three sons

three (long cylindrical things)

councillor; councilor

suffrage; franchise

among the mountains

mountain forest; forest on a mountain; forest land; woodland

egg-laying; spawning

calculation; estimation; computation

buying (of stock, materials, etc.); purchasing; stocking; laying in; procurement

town area; urban area; metropolitan area; built-up area

consideration; thoughtfulness; sympathy; compassion; feeling; kindness

pitch that hits the batter

death rate; mortality rate

beginning; start; first step

ultraviolet rays; ultraviolet radiation; UV radiation

poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems

tentative plan; draft plan

test; trial; ordeal; tribulation

capital stock

dentistry

encyclopedia

(school) period

statute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription)

magnetism

being able to do as one pleases; doing at will

living room (Western style); sitting room