progress; advance; improvement; development
life in a dormitory; dormitory life
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
people; men and women; each person; everybody
boarder; boarding student
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th century-334 BCE); Vietnam
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
dear (old); fondly remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to blackmail; to extort; to shake down
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
pre-nuptial doubts; wedding blues
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to be mentally fatigued; to tired to the bone
to resolve; to ready (oneself); to make up one's mind
to put one's strength into
to finish up; to complete; to finish off; to get through; to polish off
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
convening; calling together (e.g. parliament); call-up (for military service)
combination; union; combined; joint; congruence
lack of sleep; sleep deprivation
one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; one's time (to act); one's chance
interval; step; pitch; key
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
skipping school or work (without a good reason); playing truant; playing hooky
habitual criminal; recidivist; recidivism; habitual criminal activity
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
time appointed for meeting (assembling); time one is supposed to meet