Vocabulary

inside and outside the company

research division; inquiry section

secretary

time-sheet

cosmetics

students attending lectures

since then

to that extent; to that degree; so much; so

question mark

small script

circumflex accent

action painting

acute accent

cornice

very thick; something extremely thick

comical (story, song); comic

person who makes unreasonable complaints to a company; incessant complainer; chronic complainer

no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness

potassium cyanide

settler; colonist; immigrant

newcomer

British person; British citizen; Briton

large burn; large scald

employed person

to some extent; to a certain extent

weeping for joy; crying with happiness

cheerful; buoyant; lighthearted

steep slope

rump of a cow

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kudzu or katakuriko flour)

linear

this way and that; (by) various means; (by) every means

to snarl (at each other); to growl (angrily)

to lie face-down

loving couple; couple of lovebirds; happily married couple (who are always together)

coming; going

to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other

pattern made from chrysanthemums with disordered petals (esp. used on family crests)

osteopathic therapy