Vocabulary

manuscript; version; draft

shibori; tie-dye; tie-dyeing

referee

mineral

surrender; capitulation; submission

high quality

confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission

graphite

bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement

mixed race; mixed parentage

trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence

gravel; ballast; pebbles

reconsideration

prime minister; premier; chancellor

mining; digging; working (a mine)

subdivision (into small parts)

manners; etiquette; propriety

resigning from (public) office

family business; family trade

head of a school (of music, dance); head family of a school

housekeeper; maid

fruit juice

money; currency; coin

exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much

high speed; rapidity

monster

coastline; shoreline

status; position; rank

nuclear fission

university graduate; bachelor

paradise; Eden

geisha; professional female entertainer, usu. at traditional banquets

stage name

association; society

estimate; guess; conjecture; aim

microscope

original form; base form

unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice

present condition

solid (body); solid matter; solid-state