Vocabulary

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

residence; reside

source of supply

creed; doctrine; dogma

breast; chest

gold and silver

chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce

nine parts; ninety percent; mostly

division; section; demarcation; (traffic) lane; compartment; classification

bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal

empty stomach; hunger

spit; skewer

military scrip

honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language

performing style; acting style

being covered with water (i.e. in a flood); being submerged; being inundated; flooding

critical condition; being on the verge of death

(circuit) board; substrate

evasion; avoidance; shirking

the way back; the way home; return trip

disposition; temperament; temper; nature

character; traits; ethos

cry (e.g. of a baby); sob; whine

globular shape; spherical shape

Paleolithic; Palaeolithic; Old Stone Age

enormous expenditure; huge expense; huge outlay; great cost

strong nation; powerful country

reason; logic

self restraint; moderating one's own behavior; penitence; discipline

vajra (indestructible substance); diamond; adamantine

blond hair; blonde hair; golden hair

comb

many communities (villages); cluster of plants