Vocabulary

bad breath; halitosis

likes and dislikes; tastes; preferences; pickiness (esp. about food); choosiness; fussiness

Confucius

descent; fall; drop; (atmospheric) depression

technical college

union; combination; coalescence; amalgamation; merger; incorporation

boasting; big talk; bombast

minister of state; cabinet minister (in Japan)

bishop (Catholic)

starting (a machine, engine, etc.)

older sister; elder sister

directions; instructions; orders; command

private funds; own funds; private property

private property; personal belongings; personal effects

urgent; pressing; immediate; prompt; express

senses of seeing and hearing; audiovisual

to suit; to match; to become; to be like; to suit (someone)

well-matched; suitable; becoming

wording; words and phrases; way of expression; token

to happen to have on hand or in stock

self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial

one's real mother; natural mother; birth mother; biological mother

refrigerant; coolant

to redeem debts (e.g. of a geisha)

annual leave; annual paid vacation; annual paid holiday

newly released music; new release

running ability

scramble (for)

mass killing; mass murder; bloodbath

on the one hand ... (and on the other ...); on one side

opening (of a new office, facility, etc.)

environmental hygiene

little person (in folklore and fantasy, e.g. fairy, elf, gnome); little people; dwarf

square; rectangular

dead language; extinct language

to try; to attempt; to have a go (at)

page of a magazine

to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed

situation; state of things; current affairs

surrender (to the authorities); giving oneself up; turning oneself in