Vocabulary

magnificent house; luxurious home; palatial residence; stately mansion

real life; actual life; everyday life

recovery; undoing; recall

palm (of one's hand)

liquor trade

beginning; inauguration

closing of a school; closed school

correspondence education; correspondence course; distance education

time of emergency; (in an) emergency

village office; local administration office in a village

financial loss

day on which the temperature rises above 30°C

(crop) damage owing to disease or blight

pure white; snow white

licensed chef; qualified cook

(artificial) dialysis

private funeral

logic; reasoning; argument; line of argument

treasured sword

circumstances

sincerity

appendix; supplement; annex; extra (of a newspaper or magazine)

outward appearance

pottery; earthenware; ceramics; porcelain; china

pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad

fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward)

piling up; accumulating; forming a (huge) pile; lying in piles

succession; continuation; series; sequence

doing as one is told; yes-man

getting mixed up in; getting embroiled in; involvement; entanglement; by-blow

to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set

parliamentarism; parliamentary government

slight; little; insignificant

local edition

blank ballot; white ballot

supplementary lessons

seal engraving

classical Chinese opera

blood sugar level; blood glucose level

(being) worth seeing; impressive