Vocabulary

exploration; expedition

sign; indication; omen; symptom

decision; agreement

price increase; rise in price

one's later years; final years (in life)

corpulence; fatness; obesity

manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost

contraception; birth control

biwa (Japanese lute)

beauty; good figure; (beautiful) appearance; (beautiful) features

must arrive (no later than; e.g. of an application); must be received; must be delivered

expression in writing; written representation; notation; transcription; orthography

outward appearance; ostensible; public; official

addition; annexation; appendage

injury; wound

financial market; money market

upward move; advance

rate of economic growth

quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money

crumbling; collapse; ruin

establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation

abbreviation

ability; capacity; capability; talent

forestry

adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined

air conditioning; air cooling

series of battles; successive battles

company; lot; people; bunch; gang; pack

working conditions

reading aloud; recitation

(video) recording

washi; Japanese paper

pitcher's first pitch (to batter, or in the game)

new graduate; recent graduate

learning; scholarship; study; erudition; knowledge; education

open sea

striking a batter out

coming out; going out; outflow; efflux; rising (of the Sun or the Moon)

encouragement; cheering on

attack; drive; advance; invasion