Vocabulary

pigment

period; time

return journey; one's way home; one's way back

gas; vapour; vapor; gaseous body

valuable article; valuables

standing up

hypocrisy

ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity

artificial leg

paradox

retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking

relief; aid

classmate; friend in the same class

tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft; pit

good luck; fortune; happiness

imperial prince

executive officer; administrative official

lecture; discourse

steel pipe

steel

spice; spices; condiment

gift brought to a funeral (usu. money); funeral offering; condolence gift; incense money

high-pitched tone; soprano

confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining

national affairs

state funeral; national funeral

seizure; attachment; foreclosure

coordinate axis

zabuton; flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular

calamity; misfortune; disaster

ritual; religious service; festival

(nature of a) crime; (criminal) charge

treasure

professional killer; hit man

hillside; mountainside

to be scattered; to straggle; to be found here and there

maternity hospital

production; output; turning out; extraction (e.g. of minerals)

stabbing to death

speculation; thinking; meditation