Vocabulary

important ceremonial occasions in family relationships

bureaucratic world; government circles

official daily gazette; government newsletter

sensitivity; sensibility; susceptibility; receptivity

annulation; ring shape; loop shape

concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)

extremely important; essential; vital; crucial

deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); quiet; still; hushed; empty

cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence

rock

malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)

cheap; economical

foreign substance; foreign body; foreign contamination; foreign material

medicine; (pharmaceutical) drug; medical treatment

to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)

(one) letter; (one) character

only son

straight line

all present; all concerned; all of us

one night; one evening

family; clan; kin

look; glance; sight; having a look at; looking over; glancing through

feather; plume; plumage; down

weather; look of the sky

operation; calculation

swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin

to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to board; to take; to embark; to ride/board

to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to place (in someone's custody); to entrust (someone) with; to deposit; to check (a bag)

(another's) daughter

altar

meticulous; careful; discreet; scrupulous; prudent

particulars; details; specified items

wood (for building); lumber; timber

hill road

third baseman

edible wild plants

disastrous scene; terrible spectacle

obstetrics

messenger; envoy; emissary

grain thief; sharpened tube for testing rice in bags