Vocabulary

drying machine; dryer; desiccator

(encouragement of) industry

beginning (of a book, magazine, etc.); opening page

official residence

captain (of a warship)

personnel (of public building)

consequence; result; conclusion

elegance; refinement; grace; dignity

signature; signing one's name; writing one's name (on); registration (of a bond)

lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

chrysanthemum flower

rejection; dismissal

rubbing (someone) the wrong way; irritating (someone)

(temporary) closure of school

dormancy; quiescence; diapause

absorption; suction; aspiration

chief priest

sudden illness

sudden turn; sudden change

rescue; salvage

within a pit or (mine) shaft

tool; implement

stake; post; pile; picket

hardness and softness; hard line and moderate line

Red Sea

arable land; plantation; farmland

examination; consideration; test; quiz

one's way (ahead); one's path

manners; behavior; behaviour

alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty)

engraving a seal; engraved seal; inscribed seal

national literature

intense heat; severe heat

marriage ceremony; wedding

confusion; mixing; merger

year after next

climax; peak; zenith; apex

year end

acceleration

vassal; retainer