Vocabulary

narrow victory

state of progress

ambition; aspiration

popular literature

valley floor; bottom of a gorge; bottom of a ravine

sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring

fraction; odd amount; leftover amount

precipice; cliff; bluff

delay; procrastination

(good or bad) feel when wearing something

secondhand article; secondhand goods; used item

mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between

district of a town; city block (of irregular size)

morning market

low pressure; low voltage

regular holiday; fixed day off; regular closing day

tennis

reprinting; reproduction

transcription (of a text, DNA, RNA, etc.); copying; transfer (printing)

roll-call; muster

electrolyte

burial; interment

death from cold; freezing to death

cast net; casting net

water heater; water boiler

pulse (edible seeds of various leguminous crops); plant yielding pulse

same color; same colour

pictures drawn by child; pictures for children

blunt weapon

Chief Cabinet Secretary

internal bleeding; internal haemorrhage; internal hemorrhage

solar radiation; insolation

registering (a marriage, etc.) in the family register

being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to

cohesion; adhesion

delivery of goods

noh mask

breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence)

survival after defeat

sexual excitement; estrus; oestrus; rut; (coming into) heat