Vocabulary

supernatural tanuki (Japanese folklore)

frontier fort

hellish pain; suffering; distress; agony

standard; common standard; standard rule; standard way of doing; established usage

attacking (someone's argument); arguing against; refuting; taking issue; contradicting

hair (on the head)

package tour

flashback

hydrologic cycle; water cycle

soft tick; argasid

erythaeid mite (Erythraeoidea spp.)

scrub typhus mite (Leptotrombidium akamushi)

chicken mite (Dermanyssus gallinae)

moss mite (Oribatida spp.); box mite; beetle mite; oribatid mite

prune mite (Carpoglyphus lactis); sugar mite

white mite (Tarsonemidae spp.); thread-footed mite

house dust mite (Dermatophagoides spp.)

house dust mite (Dermatophagoides spp.)

flushness (esp. of wheels and fenders on an automobile); tsuraichi

spanking with a baseball bat

sharp turn; tight turn; steep turn

werewolf

same plane; same level

guidelines; guiding principle; dictates

thermoelectric outer planet spacecraft; TOPS

broken umbrella; torn umbrella

being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.

spinning rapidly; turning quickly; fast-forward (VCR, etc.); scanning

shower stall; shower cubicle; shower room

public record; public register; official records

day-care center (usu. for the elderly) (centre); day center

water cycle; hydrologic cycle

water and sky

gender preselection; selection of the sex of offspring

deployment; deploying

stripe; streak; striation

deployment

voluntary liquidation; winding-up

voluntary liquidation; winding-up

voluntary liquidation; winding-up