HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 85)

(v.) promote, accelerate

(n.) cheering squad, rooters

(n.) zipper

(v.) draw somebody over to one's side, rope in

(n.) wax; candle | (char.) sacrifice offered at the end of a year in ancient China

(n.) the 12th lunar month

(n.) guest

(n./v.) incoming telegram or call; send a telegram or make a call here; have instant attraction to somebody; return of electricity (after an outage)

(v.) come to visit

(n.) come-and-go, back and forth

(n.) sequence of events, cause and effect, origin and development, the way it comes and the way it leaves

(n.) next year

(idiom.) hard-won; hard-earned

(n.) handrail, balustrade

(n.) blueprint, positive print

(v.) pull somebody into one's arms, take on, take upon oneself, grasp; monopolize; fasten with a rope

(n.) cable car, gondola (cabin suspended from an airship, a balloon or a cable-railway)

(adv.) not wishing to do anything, disinclined

(v.) abuse, misuse, misapply, misappropriate, pervert

(v.) read aloud with expression, declaim

(v.) bear always in mind, learn by heart

(adv.) firmly, tightly

(adj.) tired, exhausted

(n.) labour market, labor market

(n.) (of old married couple) husband, wife

(n.) old age; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss

(v.) to become or become old; (of knowledge) to become outmoded or outdated; (of macromolecular compound) to age; (of biological organs) to degenerate

(n.) old person

(n.) fellow townsman, fellow villager; (friendly form of address to a countryman)

(n.) old and famous shop or brand

(v./n.) (of land or crops) be waterlogged; excessive water in the field

(phr.) enjoy something and never tire of it

(n.) paradise

(v.) to tie or strap something tight; (dialect) to force or compel | (v./n.) to rein in (horse); to coerce; to command; to inscribe; (lit.) halter | (m.) (abb. unit of illumination) lux, meter-candle

(phr.) echoing what others have said; be similar; similarity

(n./adj.) burden; burdensome, cumbersome, clumsy

(v.) accumulate, gather, build up, amass

(v.) add up

(n.) edge and corner, protrusion, sharpness (of a protrusion), ridge corner

(v.) freeze