Vocabulary

Cochin (breed of chicken)

in front of your nose; right next to you

very close (to); within a stone's throw (of); a stone's throw away (from)

haploidy

haploid

diploid

polar body (cell structure within the ovum)

to wait on someone hand and foot; to take personal care of someone

karaoke box; club with individual rooms that can be rented with karaoke machines

stiletto (high heels)

sara udon; Nagasaki dish of fried noodles with cabbage and other toppings

squid tentacles

pre-cum; pre-ejaculate; Cowper's fluid

inner cabinet

inner city

dark age; the Dark Ages

dark side

American casual (fashion style)

military

racing jacket

armhole; sleeve-hole

to disgrace one's ancestors; to tarnish the honour of one's ancestors

site of a Buddhist mortuary tablet

playing cards

high

to be lost in lust for riches; to throw all caution and conscience away in pursuit of riches

field of early-blooming (or ripening) rice

to feel dizzy; to feel faint

to be dizzy; to be vertiginous

to be dizzy; to be disoriented

halide

kanji "wheat" radical

to get dark after sunset; to turn to dusk; to fade into twilight

kanji "dotted cliff" radical (radical 53)

kanji "hemp" radical at top

Hades; underworld; realm of the dead; other world

darkness; gloom

kanji "nose" radical at left

kanji "tooth" radical at left

dim and distant