Vocabulary

(being on the) defensive

multistoried; multilayered

solar system

coalfield; coal field

having no license; being unlicensed

leaving (a group, team, etc.)

connection; relation; linkage

successful role

projected to win; sure to be elected; home free

great success; big hit; smash hit; winner

Escherichia coli (E. coli)

Patent Office; Patent Agency

staying the night; lodging (at)

making provision for the elderly; making provision for one's old age

(sound of an) explosion or detonation; roar (of a machine)

(one's) older brother

wind pressure

being carried away by a current

self-immolation; burning oneself to death; suicide by fire

Orders of the Sacred Treasure

confused fight; free-for-all; melee; dogfight; scuffle; rough-and-tumble

inner citadel

(a pair of) bookends

cranial nerves; cerebral nerves

hot wind

Public Employment Security Office

protein

standing tree; standing timber

destruction; collapse; crumbling

abatement; weakening

offshoot; branch; fork

annual leave; annual paid vacation; annual paid holiday

being knowledgeable about Japan; being well versed in Japanese affairs

defection from or leaving a (political) party

preparing for action or battle

landscape gardening; landscape architecture

early-summer breeze

correspondence; exchange of letters

plain; moor; prairie

separate volume; extra issue