Vocabulary

bottom price

hostility; animosity; enmity

hitting the target; striking home

electrification

electrode

electric light

overthrow of government

stone throwing

lighthouse

same sex

just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

the same sickness

tossing (someone) into the air (in celebration)

reason; logic; sense; truth; right

reading and writing

to read out; to read aloud; to call out

to push up; to thrust up; to stick up; to raise

protuberance; projection; prominence; protrusion; bump; boss

gust (of wind); blast

connotation; comprehension; intension

secondary; of secondary importance

choosing between two things; two choices

closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to; pressing hard

arrival of goods; goods received

mostly; ordinarily; usually; generally

large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)

search; quest; pursuit

subterranean tunnel

to do

clothes (that one is wearing)

company; battery; troop

close friendship; close friend; good friend; bosom buddy; chum; pal

pouring; injection

writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books

memorial address; words of condolence; funeral oration; eulogy

jump; leap; skip; bound

spicy; hot

person; people

now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns

an age (ago); a long time (ago); a decade (ago)