Vocabulary

cascade connection

concatenation; cascade (connection)

menace; threat; intimidation

five (long cylindrical things)

seven (long cylindrical things)

two (long cylindrical things)

interpreter (esp. of Dutch and Chinese during the Edo period); interpretation

Confederate States of America

Bantu language (of the Bantu language family)

undulating melodic ornamentation or embellishment, esp. in folk and popular songs

oxymoron

oxymoron

good-looking guy; handsome man; hunk; Adonis; cool guy

cool; stylish; good-looking; fashionable; sexy

the wish to have one's ashes scattered

broccoli

Russia and Japan; Russian-Japanese

Japan and Russia; Japanese-Russian

Massacre of the Innocents (infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament)

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; ASSR

Soviet Socialist Republic; SSR

people's republic

people's socialist republic

people's democratic republic

gravedigger

chloroform

training wheels; stabilizers

denitrification; denitration

unable to do; impossible to do

very small amount of money; penny; cent; nickel; dime

continuous; without a break

to come back (of an illness, cold weather, etc.); to return; to recur; to happen again

slight intoxication; being tipsy; mellowness

a bit more; a bit longer

to succeed (in doing); to manage to do; to accomplish; to carry off; to pull off

our school; my school

knowing only one thing (and repeating it often); saying the only thing one knows (at every opportunity); repeating the only thing one knows

one sen; one-hundredth of a yen; small amount of money

to cut a conspicuous figure; to be by far the best

to show someone's true colors; to remove someone's mask; to take the veneer off something