Vocabulary

hard; solid; tough

power; influence

to estimate

to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate

original document (not a copy or adaptation); book in its original language (esp. a European language)

original (text)

form (printing); forme; typesetting plate; original plate

declaration; statement; assertion

paste; glue

circulation (esp. of documents); sending round

foreign rice

street light; streetlamp

everyone; each and every one (of you); ladies and gentlemen

nuclear explosion

isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility

scholar; student

cession (of territory)

to slip off

sliding down (a slope, mountainside); slipping down

birch (esp. Japanese white birch)

to mow; to reap; to harvest

coronary artery

being fully equipped; being fully furnished

inertia

shock absorption; buffer action; cushioning; buffer

making arbitrary decisions which benefit oneself; self-approved plan

to be dispelled (of doubts, ill feeling, etc.); to disappear; to be put behind one

field of bamboo grass

gluttony

stage setting; scenery

Venus (planet)

multiple; poly-

special order (goods); custom (made); bespoke

renting; leasing

competition; rivalry

substation

liberated area or zone

chemical seasoning (esp. monosodium glutamate)

legal principle

to run about; to rush about