Vocabulary

businesses offering food and entertainment; cabaret, club, gambling and restaurant businesses

comfortably; easily

wayside shrine

to pursue

worry; trouble; anxiety

edge of a swamp

patch; patching

liquefaction; liquefy

new book; new publication

report; declaration

speed of a pitch; velocity

allotment (allocation) of marks

battle formation

to meet; to assemble; to gather

pulse; pulse rate; pulsation; stroke of pulse

things one is carrying; things one has on one's person

yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer

vibration; flickering; jolting; tremor

Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)

to feel; to sense; to experience

bargain goods; loss leader

repeating a year (at school); staying in the same class for another year

sending a telegram; telegraphing; wiring

laying underground (e.g. cables); burying (e.g. pipe)

pathogen

long horse (for vaulting)

to send (rain); to shed

cake flour; pastry flour

lipid

to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate

way; method; means; resource; course

geothermal energy; terrestrial heat

normal state (condition)

setting off (on a long journey); setting out; departure (e.g. for the front); leaving home

raw cotton; cotton wool

assault; violent attack

strong defense; strong defence

small factory in town; (small) backstreet workshop

woodblock (engraved block of wood used to make prints)

setting sun