Vocabulary

comic relief

high-rise apartment building; high-rise condominium; tower block

Tu-ka (Japanese mobile phone service)

parts of a building to which electrical cables are attached

cable clip (clip used to attach electrical cable to wooden building material)

vinyl-sheathed vinyl-insulated flat cable (type of solid-core copper cable)

to leave behind

staple

realpolitik; pragmatic politics

realpolitik

traditional method of stirring soba while cooking

limit on maximum power consumption

advance payment; up-front payment; prepayment

crimp; crinkle; waviness

crimp; crimping

textured

crinkle

love

to rebury; to refill; to backfill

dream for the future; hopes for the future

payment of debts; repayment

debt trap; debt hell; being in debt up to one's ears

educational institution; educational facilities

excursion ticket; travel pass

separation of politics from economics

oral instruction

apocalyptic literature

Pentecost; Whitsunday

Sukkot; Succot; Feast of Tabernacles

pseudepigrapha

disembarkation (from an aircraft or spacecraft); deplaning

theme music; theme tune; theme song

Madrid (Spain)

bonanza

Hispanic America; Spanish America

Spanglish

tilde

superstratum; superstrate

substratum; substrate

grinding; trituration