Dictionary

first; primary; initial

surname Bo; thin; cold in manner

to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together

paper; treatise; thesis

comprehensive; composite; synthesized

to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance

youth; youthfulness

to absorb; to assimilate; to ingest

young man; young guy; lad

cozy; snug

accountant; accountancy; accounting

to strive; to struggle

to possess; to have; equipped with

to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort

to download; also pr. [xià zài]

to constitute; to form; to compose

secretary

to ignite; to combust; to burn

to go bankrupt; to become impoverished; bankruptcy

can't say for sure; maybe

simple; pure; unsophisticated

in advance; before the event; beforehand

unemployment; to lose one's job

rule (e.g. of science); law of behavior; regular pattern

treatment; pay; salary

insipid; diluted; weak

prospects; future outlook; journey

to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over

gasoline

concentrated; dense; strong (smell etc)

to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc)

to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore

close; familiar; intimate

to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam; to admit (a student); to hire (a job candidate)

sound of moving water; shallow; light (color)

honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible

efficiency

scene; spectacle; circumstances

in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)

to contrast; contrast; ratio

to argue; to debate; to contend

to reduce; to decrease; to shrink

to approve; to endorse; (literary) to assist

to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy

to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process

question; interrogation; doubt

to wrap up; to bind up; bundle

to be good at; to be adept at

to contain; to embody; to include

premier; prime minister