Vocabulary

emergency contraceptive pill

emergency contraceptive

general manager; GM

auspicious cloud

luck at winning

prosperity; fortune

registered contractor

antimonopoly; antitrust

antimonopoly; antitrust

antitrust policy

antitrust policy

reduction in the number of vehicles, carriages, etc.; reduction in vehicle runs (bus, taxi, etc.)

increase in the number of vehicles, trains, etc.; increase in runs (bus, etc.)

great writer; major writer

business forecast; business forecasting; business prediction; economic forecasting

collapse of a bubble economy; economic bubble burst

on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving

public support; official support; public aid

encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement

cost of goods sold; cost of sales; sales cost

selling costs; selling expenses; distribution costs

depreciation cost; depreciation expense

administrative cost; head office expenses; general management expenses

room number

courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party)

humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.)

humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy

house; home

research bureau; research service; research council

morality

just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

personal history

gulag (Soviet internment camp)

Neurospora crassa (species of red bread mould)

thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)

African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)

African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)

woodland draba (Draba nemorosa); woodland whitlow-grass

sweat absorbency

seeming bad