Vocabulary

part; section

part; section

to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl

honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat

Near East

rectangle

foolish act; folly

emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; void

waste; wastefulness

senior pupil (of the same master); senior disciple; senior student; senior member

memento (esp. of a deceased person); keepsake; heirloom; remembrance; souvenir

look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression

minor offence; minor offense; misdemeanor; misdemeanour

raging stream; rapids

preparedness for death; do-or-die spirit

thrift; economy; frugality

(religious) festival

long and narrow

versification; verse making

strategy; artifice

dreary; bleak; monotonous; barren

crescent moon; young moon

to go; to come

miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable

prose

speculative stock

(dental) plaque

court physician

one's own style; self-taught manner

cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; making food oneself; self-catering

admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement

gold or silver lacquer; lacquer decoration sprinkled with metal powder

the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli)

lost territory

disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn

empirical; positive

lawn; sod; turf

words of thanks; words of gratitude; acknowledgements

improper way (of doing); wrong way; unorthodox method

to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to use