Vocabulary

village school (esp. in Edo-era Japan, and ancient Korea and China)

top award; grand prize; prize for best performance

pit of one's stomach

baguette sandwich; French-style sandwich

younger half-brother (by a different mother)

older half-brother (by a different mother)

older half-sister (by a different mother)

half-sisters (by a different mother)

younger half-brother (by a different father)

older half-brother (by a different father)

younger half-sister (by a different father)

older half-sister (by a different father)

siege; besiegement; battle of encirclement

siege; siege warfare

biological clock; body clock

biological control; biocontrol

biological control; biocontrol

Soulslike (subgenre of role-playing video games); Souls-like

plastic model

nursery school visiting; participating and observing at nursery school

dak-galbi; spicy stir-fried chicken

to be ecstatically happy; to be on cloud nine; to be in seventh heaven

(with) bending and swaying; floppily; limply

nothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den

Yamanote Line game; (drinking) game where players take turns naming items in a category in rhythm with clapping, originally naming Yamanote Line stations

forgetting curve

physician-assisted suicide; PAS

affiliative; harmonious

advanced; pioneering; cutting-edge

immoral; illicit; unethical

perverse; perverted; twisted; inverted

suggestive; allusive; evocative; implicit

straightforward; blunt; outspoken; clear-cut

what's up with ...?; what the hell?; what was that?

Democratic Republic of the Congo

to look up at the sky; to look up to heaven; to face upwards

Volkssturm (national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II)

iron meteorite; siderite; chalybite

glycemic index

glycemic index