Vocabulary

next volume (of a book)

punish; guaranteed counter-attack

punish; confirmed counter-attack

detachable; removable; clip-on

it is shameful to reject the advances of a woman; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame

knife block

soccer shorts; football shorts

person one is interested in; person one likes

to treasure (something) as a heirloom; to cherish forever

okey-dokey

down sleeping bag; down-filled sleeping bag

grid-shaped; checkered

pasteboard

high chair

gaijin hunter; (Japanese) person attracted to foreigners

consider yourself praised; you are hereby commended

free time; spare time; leisure

exterior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); open-air corridor

interior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); enclosed corridor

Cooper's ligaments; fibrocollagenous septa

ugh (when angry, irritated, etc.); ack; ach; tsk; keh

morbid curiosity

flatbread

serial murder case

fascination with the bizarre; taste for the macabre

harcha (Moroccan semolina flatbread); harsha

bizarre crime; grotesque incident; macabre case

Persian (cat)

Persia

bizarre murder case

perpetrator of a bizarre murder

serial bizarre murders

serial bizarre murder case

ghoulish murderer; grotesque killer

running rigging (of a sailing vessel)

mand (verbal operant)

first in this country; first (of its kind) in Japan

goat willow (Salix caprea); pussy willow

fog lamp; fog light

dwarf birch (Betula nana)