HSK 7–9
vocabulary.

margin; leeway

the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way

public opinion

ignorant; uneducated; ignorance

fisherman; fisher folk

to be overdue; to fail to meet a deadline

joyful; cheerful

whether or not (at the end of a phrase)

to increase steadily; to grow with each passing day

abreast of modern developments; to keep up with the times

to give; to impose

(idiom) to stand out from the crowd; distinctive; different from the rest

universe; cosmos; space

jade

the more...(the more...); to recover

to prepare; to make ready

to have a premonition; premonition

to forecast; to predict

(of a wound) to heal

all the more; even more

to foresee; to predict

warning; early warning

gloomy; depressed

to perish; to be killed

preliminary competition; to hold preliminary heats

to indicate; to foretell

to sell in advance

budget

to get into difficulties; to meet with danger

beforehand; in advance

to predict; prophecy

fable; allegory; parable

ever more critical; problems get more and more intense

moral (of a story); lesson to be learned

omen; sign (of sth yet to occur)

injustice; grievance

to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly

origin; source

to create (an original work); (of a work) original

fate or chance that brings people together; predestined affinity or relationship

complainant; plaintiff

reason; cause

senior figure; doyen; founding member; veteran

site developed for a group of related enterprises; (industrial or technology) park

fountainhead; well-spring

head of state

source; origin; fountainhead

model; prototype

(idiom) in an unending stream; continuous

(idiom) of long standing; with a long history; stretching back to ancient times

original; authentic

to help; to support

genuine; intact in original packaging (not locally assembled and packaged)

foresight; discernment

to be known far and wide; to be well-known

to blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge

to resent; to harbor a grudge against

grievance; resentment

member of a national academy

complaint

to speak; to say

established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement; customary convention

band; pop group

sweet-sounding; beautiful (of sound)

increasingly; more and more

wife's father, father-in-law

to cross over; to transcend

to read

to experience; experience

wife's mother, mother-in-law

a musical score; sheet music

confused and disoriented

meteorite; aerolite

reconciled; smooth

to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc)

lit. to devise battle plan in a tent (idiom); fig. planning strategies

pregnant woman

to contain; to accumulate

canal

(of alcohol) to ferment; (of a crisis) to be brewing

to perform calculations; (mathematical) operation

implicit charm in rhyme or sound; hinted appeal

to be pregnant; to produce offspring

to work; to operate

to operate; operations

to smash; to pound

acrobatics

to hybridize; to crossbreed

disordered and in a mess (idiom); all mixed up and chaotic

to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign)

to grow; to cultivate

to frame sb (by planting sth on them)

to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge

once more; once again; one more time

to continue the struggle (idiom); to persist; unremitting efforts

to be unavoidable (idiom)

carrier (chemistry); vector (epidemiology)

to recreate; to reconstruct (a historical relic)

to be employed; to be in post

to collect; to hoard