Vocabulary

Okinawan pottery

satisfactory; convincing; acceptable

you bastard!; you son of a bitch!

flare gun; Very pistol; signal pistol

authoritative recording; definitive edition (of a record, CD, etc.)

leaving work (office, school) early

standard edition (record, CD, etc.); regular edition

from here; from this place

whole-team effort; pulling together

group chat

skyfish (cryptid); flying rod; solar entity

most ... ever; most ... up to now; more ... than ever before

blooper; Texas leaguer

methodology

metonym

mechanist

three lifetime commandments (youth's femininity, middle-aged struggle, old-age gain)

mouth rinse; mouthwash

thickly; heavily; profusely; gaudily; excessively; too much

tuberculin (skin) test

aha experience

aha moment; moment of sudden realization

piano piece for four hands; composition for piano four-hands

hating; strongly disliking

Japanese apricot and shiso

noon; midday

early autumn

calendar maker; almanac maker

charcoal paper; paper used in charcoal drawing

Music Bureau (Han dynasty; government office responsible for collecting folk songs)

made in (...)

faint memory; vague memory; dim memory; vague recollection

snow chains

mined strip (of land)

to drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat

sawing lengthwise (timber, lumber)

hay; dry grass

quasi-mandate contract; time and material contract

poulterer

cinnamon (color)