Vocabulary

to flatter; to toady (to); to curry favor (with); to butter up; to grind sesame seeds

oil content

teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; lecturing to the Buddha

pebbles; gravel

shaggy (rug, carpet, etc.)

fringed iris (Iris japonica); Japanese iris

fringed iris (Iris gracilipes)

(doing the) ironing

press room; press gallery

his true objective lies elsewhere; there are ulterior motives at play; the enemy is at Honnōji

touchdown (American football)

gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)

automatic transmission

general secretary (of a communist party, esp. the leader of China or North Korea)

not checking; undergoing no checks; leaving unchecked

daydream

stepwise; one step at a time

Itayose (trading method used by Japanese exchanges)

(medical) holism

conferment; act of conferring (honour, gift, etc.)

humus

carnivore

hey there; I say; see here

to imitate; to copy; to mimic

visual confirmation; sighting

visibility; noticeability; perceptibility

diet; low calorie; reduced calorie

diet; no calorie; non-caloric

secure

selenium

Woodstock Festival (1969); Woodstock Music and Art Festival

East China Sea

Ryukyu Islands

Ryukyu Islands; southern chain of the Nansei Islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture

our company; my company

word-hunting; search for and censorship of politically incorrect words

to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await

getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door

egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)

Shotokan (style of karate)