Level 7-9 Vocabulary List

the traditional Chinese calendar; the lunar calendar

migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)

(farm) crops

dense; thick (fog, clouds etc); to have a strong interest in; deep; fully saturated (color)

to concentrate (a liquid); concentration; espresso coffee; abbr. for 意式浓缩咖啡

rich; strong; heavy (fragrance); dense; full-bodied; intense

dense; thick; strong; rich (colors); heavy (aroma); deep (friendship); profound (effect)

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

slave

daughter's husband; son-in-law

nice and warm; cozy; heartwarming

to mistreat; to maltreat; to abuse; mistreatment; maltreatment

to shift; to move

promise

(é) to chant | (ó) oh (interjection indicating doubt or surprise) | (ò) oh (interjection indicating that one has just learned sth) | (o) sentence-final particle that conveys informality, warmth, friendliness or intimacy; may also indicate that one is stating a fact that the other person is not aware of

to beat up; to come to blows; battery (law)

to vomit

to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Tw) percent

clapper-board; auctioneer's hammer; to beat time with clappers

to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price

to shoot a movie

to pace back and forth; to dither; to hesitate; (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate

to reject; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to repel

to arrange in order; to emit; to discharge (exhaust gas, waste water etc); (of animals) to ovulate; to discharge semen

to rehearse; rehearsal

(business) license; vehicle license; car registration; license plate

group; sect; clique; faction; school

to send (on a mission); to dispatch

to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status

to clamber up; (of prices etc) to rise

to plot; to scheme; to calculate

to sentence; to condemn

to judge; to decide; judgment; determination

judgment (by a court of law); to pass judgment on; to sentence

to rebel; to revolt; a rebel

to hope for; to long for; to expect

huge; enormous; tremendous

spectator; non-participant

to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon

to throw out; to get rid of

to abandon; to discard; to renounce; to dump (sb)

(bào) carpenter's plane; to plane (woodwork); to shave off; to peel (with a potato peeler etc) | (páo) to dig; to excavate; (coll.) to exclude; not to count; to deduct; to subtract | (bào) variant of 刨

racing bicycle; racing car; sports car; (of a conductor or attendant) to work on a train; (mining) (of a cable-car) to slip away (in an accident)

athletic track; track; runway (i.e. airstrip)

to play a small role

foam; (soap) bubble; (economic) bubble

embryo

to accompany

to be buried with or next to dead person (of deceased's partner, or of funerary objects)

to lose money; to pay for damages