Vocabulary

mental age

osteology

charnel house; ossuary

waiting list

mountaineering ascetic; practitioner of mountain asceticism

surmisal; hypothesis; speculation; conjecture; supposition

information discovery; disclosure of information

right to arrest; power of arrest

thixotropy (property of being more fluid when shaken)

magic circle

sympathetic magic; homeopathic magic; imitative magic

clip-clop; clippety-clop

ability to take action; ability to take initiatives; energy; dynamism; drive

sympathetic magic; homeopathic magic; imitative magic

antisocial personality disorder

psychopath

magical thinking

contagious magic

medicine man; witch doctor (doctor specialized in treating illnesses caused by magic)

folk medicine

horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum); rowdy lamb herb; barrenwort; bishop's hat; fairy wings; yin yang huo

Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)

dried Swertia japonica (used as a traditional medicine)

Japanese copperhead (Gloydius blomhoffii); mamushi pit-viper

herbal medicine prepared from dried earthworms

water poisoning (in traditional Chinese medicine, illnesses caused by excessive water accumulation within the body)

three strikes law (US)

Galápagos tortoise (Geochelone nigra); Galapagos giant tortoise

great frigatebird (Fregata minor)

early-spring; not yet springlike; before spring has truly arrived

first day of the second month

springtime mating of frogs

time when moles transform into quails (second climate of the third month)

mole

peak of spring; height of spring

summer-like (e.g. of weather in late spring)

sky pattern on a calm and clear day of spring

cloud floating in a spring sky

spring moon; misty moon

star in the sky on a spring night