Vocabulary

bill; account

price range or fluctuation

chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook

prosperity; flourishing; thriving

chief clerk (in a shop, managing affairs on the owner's behalf); head clerk; store manager

(photographic) subject

clothing

escaping the summer heat; going somewhere cooler during the summer; summering

scattering (e.g. dust in the wind, enemies before an assault); dispersal; flying off (in all directions); flying apart

corpuscle; minute particle; particulate

virtue

knee

default; nonperformance

sheet music; score

samurai family; samurai class; samurai stock

seal

premiere; first showing; release (film)

by-product

reissue; putting back in print

peritonitis

looking for (a suitable thing or person); searching for; hunting out; picking out; shopping around for; searching (a place)

Shinto ritual

gold ore; gold deposit

subtropics

heavy smoker; habitual smoker; person who loves smoking; tobacco lover

(one's) beloved car (or motorcycle, bicycle, etc.); (one's) wheels

Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)

rest; quiet; repose

safety zone

dependence

power; authority; influence

hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding

offensive smell; bad smell; foul smell; stench

stomach

breeding (of plants or animals)

alternating between happiness and anxiety; swinging between joy and sorrow; being glad and sad by turns; oscillating between optimism and pessimism

an art; one talent

one house; household

first anniversary of a person's death

persistence; single-mindedness; sticking to one point; focusing on one thing