Vocabulary

shameless; bold; brazen

without a reason

to speak (of something)

Tet Offensive (North Vietnamese offensive launched in January 1968)

fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors)

restaurant inside a department store

direct style

series of holidays with one or two workdays in between

Nature (journal)

devastating; catastrophic; crushing

fish sauce (made from fermented salted fish)

beaten egg; eggwash

screen name; username; handle

strength training; resistance training; muscle-building

Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production; 1958-1960)

bowline (knot)

kai-awase; Heian-period shell-matching game

utagaruta; traditional matching game played with cards with stanzas of waka written on them

three-card monte (game)

official name

congratulatory postcards with a spring pattern sold every year in February

summer greeting cards containing a lottery ticket, sold every year starting in June

postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg

recyclable garbage; recyclable waste

Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938); Night of Broken Glass

Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League organized to obtain freedom from French colonial rule)

Vietcong; Viet Cong (communist guerrilla soldiers who fought in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War)

wrap-around (i.e. sunglasses)

big but useless person

posthumous name (based the deeds one has performed in their lifetime)

the rules according to which posthumous names are assigned

posthumous Buddhist name

Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)

(Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People

antiscorbutic; preventive against scurvy

metabolic pathway

Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia); Parsee

professional wrestler