Vocabulary

heavy double-handled pot used for making rice

preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance

golf-like game using mallets instead of clubs

to have excess momentum (from going too fast, using too much force, etc.)

circumstantial retribution; circumstances (e.g. geographical, societal) one is born into because of karma in previous lives

direct retribution; body and mind one is born into because of karma in previous lives

inseparability of body/mind and geographical circumstances

coincidence

to laugh scornfully; to sneer at

image sensor

framed (e.g. poster, painting)

polish; cleaner; polishing liquid

free repair; free servicing

organizational climate; organization culture; organizational environment

privilege (e.g. "attorney-client privilege")

Thai-Burma Railway

backfit; retrofit; backfitting; retrofitting

headless; decapitated

melanosome

family name

farmed fish; farm-raised fish; cultivated fish; hatchery fish

to coil around (of a child or animal); to grab (usu. out of playfulness or affection); to cling

weighing; measuring volume; quantifying

low-ranking samurai; samurai of the lowest rank

règle des trois unités; the three unities (time, place and action)

underling; loser

tidbit; titbit; digression; sidebar; snippet

rough hands; red hands

(dried) bonito stock

warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed)

warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed)

plainclothes police officer; plain-clothes detective

treatment efficacy

personal; individual

Glauber's salt; sodium sulfate decahydrate; sodium sulphate decahydrate

hanging upside down

pyrrhotite

Mohs' hardness

Mohs' hardness

orthoclase; common feldspar