sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
junior high school student; middle school pupil
everyone; each and every one (of you); ladies and gentlemen
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
green grass; young (fresh) grass
brilliant; bright; dazzling
to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect
plain; unfigured; patternless; solid (color)
shade; tone; tinge; hue; colour; color
dead-leaf color; yellowish brown
pale yellow; light yellow
to become fluffy; to become fuzzy; to become nappy; to become rough; to become frayed
cutting (cloth, paper, etc.); judgement; judgment; decision
rough (touch, voice, etc.); coarse; gritty; rattling (of beans, beads, etc.)
by any standard; (not) even as flattery
to look through; to hold up to the light; to make an opening; to leave space; to fart without making a sound
(small) knife; short sword; small sword
common reed (Phragmites australis)
to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
trial product; prototype model
papermaking; paper-making; paper making
toast; congratulatory cup
late autumn (fall); (arch.) ninth month of the lunar calendar
odious; hateful; detestable; (speaking ironically) darling
corruption (of order, public morals, etc.); subversion; degradation; collapse (of an organization, system, etc.); falling apart
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
to work out; to think up; to devise; to manage to find (money, time, etc.); to scrape together (funds)
transition; change; progress; passing (of time)
papermaking; paper manufacture
casting; cast-metal object
dyeing; dyed goods; goods to be dyed
starting up (e.g. business, computer)
shaft of an arrow (usu. made of thin bamboo); cornetfish
opposite direction; reverse; retrorse