Vocabulary

just the right size; perfect size

bloomers

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

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

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

slight intoxication; being tipsy; mellowness

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

way of swimming

yellow; yellowish

distributor (of goods)

heat; warmth; sultriness

breaking bricks, etc.

temper pattern of a sword blade

pouring one's energy into; focusing one's efforts on; concentrating on; committing oneself to