市立: (attributive, government, of an institution) the state of being established by a city's government; municipality

a Japanese card game similar to Baccarat, where the goal is to achieve a hand scoring as close to 9 points as possible

for the time being, for the present

the basics, a general idea

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

一栄一落: vicissitudes

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

successive series of questions and responses

(algebra) homogeneity