Vocabulary

rebate

split firewood

rebate money

split wedge

ripping chisel

broken piece

Fragile; Handle With Care

holding one's ground; defending local authority

secant line

disembowelment; harakiri

coverall apron; cook's apron

(Japanese) restaurant

(male) circumcision

large, broad-shouldered physique (esp. that of a middle-aged man); big build

sphincter (muscle); constrictor

printed form (of writing); print

stimulation (e.g. of an economy); revitalization (e.g. of a town); rejuvenation; invigoration

specialty magazine; information digest

activist

results (of an activity)

becoming active; increase in activity

activity

developing a way or means

desiring person; luster

slide rule

comic novel (Edo period)

sliding seat

talc; talcum

talcum powder

lubricant

kudzu starch

brown algae; phaeophyceae

brown coal; lignite

Japanese Brown (cattle breed)

katsuobushi; pieces of sliced dried bonito

reddish yellow

stock offering (to the public)

stock exchange

general meeting of stockholders

dandelion (esp. species Taraxacum platycarpum)