HSK 7–9
vocabulary.

official business

supply and demand

to supply; to provide for one's elders

supply chain

public; for public use

convention (i.e. international agreement)

notarization; notarized

fine work; carefully and neatly done

civil service; public office

to cup one's hands in salute; to surround

to consecrate; to enshrine and worship

republic

(physics) to resonate; resonance; sympathetic response

common understanding; consensus

community

overall character

to attract; to arouse

to hook; to sew

to collude with; to collaborate with

to draw the outline of; to outline

to construct (sth abstract)

unbearable; terrible

to design; to plot

to conceive; concept

lone; lonely

orphan

to fail to live up to (sb's expectations, trust or kindness); to let down

to isolate; isolated

lone; isolated and without help

ignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded

for the time being; tentatively

assessment; evaluation

thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum

to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite

curio; antique

shareholder; stockholder

a share (in a company); stock

diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone

bones; skeleton

strange; weird

ancient text; antique books

framework; skeleton

at all times and in all places (idiom)

stock investor; share trader

simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)

unyielding character; courageous spirit

cereal; grain

to suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break

happening; instance

to employ; to hire

to solidify; to harden; (fig.) to make permanent; to become fixed

to take into consideration; to attend to

misgivings; apprehensions; to worry about; to be concerned about

as the name implies

to take the big picture into consideration (idiom); to work for the benefits of all

admittedly (it's true that...)

to employ; to hire

intrinsic to sth; inherent

employee

obstinate; stubborn

employer

to partition; to divide up

to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth; to sit up and take notice (of sb's improved performance etc)

melon seed; seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed as a snack

widow

to couple; to link; to hook together; hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling

to feel anxious about; to have (sth) weighing on one's mind

to report the loss of something

(of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever

clever (child); smart

crutches; crutch

no wonder!; so that's why!

monster; freak

monstrous; strange

(military) officers and soldiers; officers and men

coffin

to observe; to survey

one's impressions; observations

joint (physiology); key point

bureaucrat; official

bureaucrat; bureaucracy

to observe and emulate; to study (esp. following sb's example)

to be deeply concerned; to be troubled (by)

customs duty; tariff

lawsuit

juncture; moment

to wait and see; to watch from the sidelines; to look around; to survey

to take care; to keep an eye on

butler; steward; manager; administrator; housekeeper

to discipline; to teach

to administer; to have jurisdiction (over)

efficacious; useful

accustomed to; used to

to irrigate; to pour

to implement; to put into practice

to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end

to irrigate

convention; usual practice

to imbue with; to inculcate

to link up; to thread together