Vocabulary

warp; curvature; bend; arch

overflowing; flood; inundation; deluge

dinner (esp. a formal one)

comparatively; relatively

skin disease

manure; night soil; dung; fertiliser; fertilizer

slander; abuse

mourning clothes; mourning attire; mourning dress

theory of relativity

amateur baseball; sandlot baseball

lesson learned from someone's else mistake; object lesson; food for thought; stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems)

perennial plant

to conquer (e.g. an enemy); to defeat

figure; body shape; build; physique; form

original text with its translation printed side by side or on opposite page

reading for another

series (e.g. electrical)

sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling

extinguishing; dying out (of a fire); putting out

to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across

cheap; inexpensive

stop (bus, tram, etc.); station; stopping place

standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; formula

imperial capital

muddy water

being dead drunk; drunken stupor

Tendai sect (of Buddhism)

telegram

ferry; ferryboat

central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader

thief; robber

to take off; to jump; to leap

position; job; employment; opening

disturbance of mind; losing one's head; being upset; being astonished; being frightened

same root; same origin

guidance

hard to get; hard to come by

preferential tariff; preferential duty

fighting windmills; tilting at windmills

reading comprehension