Vocabulary
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event held the night before another event; eve (of a festival) (e.g. Christmas Eve)
dealing appropriately (with a situation); taking proper measures; handling (an issue) carefully; making the best of (a bad bargain)
gradual progress; steady advance
shooting; sniping
priest; monk; bonze
representative
viscera; bowels
preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; inducement to stay
loss and gain; advantage and disadvantage
ancient times; prehistoric times
way to do (something)
capacity; volume
compost; manure
prescribed form (of writing); format
preface; foreword; introduction
commerce (field of study); department of commerce (at a university)
evening; early night hours
small boat
castle wall; town walls; defensive wall; rampart
right under; directly below; right beneath
crowd; throng
humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue
design; sketch
India-ink painting; ink wash painting
cooking; kitchen work
genitals
orthodox school
kitchen waste; food scraps; raw garbage
unpasteurized beer; draft beer; draught beer
lifelong education; continuing education; further education
close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny
refining; refinement; smelting
north-west
silence; stillness; quietness
cut flowers
diligent application (to work or study); cultivating one's character by studying hard
out of print
higher future quotations
the other day; some time ago; recently
some time ago; the other day