Vocabulary

control group (in an experiment)

medicine for treating digestive disorders (e.g. antidiarrheals, probiotics); gastrointestinal drug

medicine for intestinal disorders

serving tea (to hospital patients, esp. during meals)

day room

not (that), but rather (something else); without

semi-private room; partially secluded space

week in question; appointed week; that very week; the week (of issue, publication, etc.)

to destroy; to break (by striking); to smash (to pieces); to knock down

to knock (someone) down; to floor; to beat up; to beat to a pulp

to pierce; to go through; to bore into; to dig through

maple (tree)

my kind of; my favorite

București (Romania); Bucharest

to put (one's) weight on (e.g. one leg)

to step into; to enter

don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90

bubbly; foamy; frothy

in a fluster; in a panic

lightly; faintly; delicately

so-so; tolerable; passable

honorarium (to cover transportation costs)

to rest and recuperate (esp. on doctor's orders); to repose

suddenly (fall asleep, fall over, die)

gold badge (esp. those worn by Diet members)

popular store; popular restaurant; famous shop

palmier (pastry)

pie dough; pie crust

gale during cherry blossom season

to take measures; to take steps; to take action; to make a move

as usual; as per normal

puff pastry

to slap (someone) in the face

cholagogue

gallbladder; liver

dried bear's gallbladder (used as a medicine)

small fire

through traffic; straight-travelling vehicle

Hakurei (one of the eight major professional female titles of shogi)

clean; tidy; pure; untarnished