Vocabulary

postal life insurance

propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work

fall; falling down; tumbling; toppling (over)

without dividend

collapse; break; cave-in; crash

Cabinet Legislation Bureau

absence; not taking part

good times; boom; (wave of) prosperity

good fielding

administrative litigation (action)

mining area; mine lot

leaving the mound; being knocked out

notice; notification; warning

one's own potential; real ability; one's own strength

detached territory; enclave; exclave

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; monocropping

war or military record; score; military achievements; results

empty gun; gun loaded with blanks; firing a blank

parallelism; running parallel (to, with)

last night; yesterday evening

wild goose

rising water (of river, lake, etc.); swelling water; increased water; high water

completion; accomplishment; attainment of greatness or success

serious damage; heavy damage; being wrecked

main street (esp. in a capital); main thoroughfare

spirit; determination; pluck; mettle

adoptive parents

shallow river; shallows

walk; promenade

demobilization; demobilisation; repatriation

vitality; (one's) life force

three-dimensional

elderly woman

feature of the season; something characteristic of a particular season

(beyond the) limits; scope; boundary

dyeing; printing

etc.; et cetera; and so on

(overnight) stay; lodging

steaming

lack; deficiency; vacancy