Vocabulary

inner ear

Southern Ocean; Antarctic Ocean

immediate reply; quick answer; ready agreement

dualism

lactic-acid bacilli

to be jumbled together

to spread (of flames)

stickiness; viscosity; glutinosity

double amount

to build a market for; to promote (a product); to sell; to become well known

count; earl

99th birthday

hair ornament

semicircle

hemisphere

servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling

pathetic; sad; sorrowful; grievous

to cross over; to go across

to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble

local customs

to grieve over; to mourn; to lament

embezzlement; fraudulent use; plagiarism; appropriation

equal; identical; the same

clay

the same rank; the same digit

high grade; special grade; classy

coastwise service

to be inherent (in); to reside (in); to be immanent (in); to be intrinsic

Northern and Southern Courts (of Japan; 1336-1392); Northern and Southern Dynasties

hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack

instrumental duet; instrumental duo

heatstroke; sunstroke

opportunism; waiting and seeing (how the wind blows); sitting on the fence; straddling

latex (milky fluid found in plants)

to creep; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed

to get wet

fever; febrile disease

to spread (of fire)

brain inflammation; encephalitis; cerebritis

cerebral infarction; (ischemic) stroke