little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
to be of use as a reference; to be helpful
end of term; end of semester
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
to occupy; to hold; to account for; to make up; to take up
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
ceremony held at the end of a school term; end-of-term ceremony
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
to choose (a thing) at one's own discretion; to use one's discretion in choosing
call; summons; convening; convocation
established practice; custom
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time
tradition; legend; folklore
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
having a crisp appearance; stiffly; tensely; smartly (e.g. dressed); neatly
to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain
serious; grave; dignified; solemn
feigned voice; unnatural voice
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation
(plump and) happy-looking
successive generations; successive emperors
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
insistence; (major) emphasis; stress
long-established; old-established; traditional
plentiful; lot of; much; pile of
creakily; close (i.e. with no room to spare)