Vocabulary

weightlessness; zero gravity

dismissal; discharge

acquittal

to face on; to look out on to

tacit approval; tacit permission; connivance; acquiescence; toleration; overlooking

preferential treatment; hospitality; warm reception; cordial welcome

overeagerness; rashness

eternal; everlasting; perpetual; immemorial

separation; isolation

deep-fried food

(Western) dressmaking

business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

to be entwined; to be involved

to twine; to get tangled; to get entangled; to get caught (in)

side street (often parallel to a main street); back street; alley; alleyway

rear garden; back yard

to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)

stray bullet

miscarriage; (spontaneous) abortion; abortive birth

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke)

protuberance; bulge; protrusion; projection; swell

journey; route of a journey

both families

fine article; good-quality item; quality product

to banter; to make fun of; to jeer at

cold; chill; cold weather; cold wave; cold air

Japanese person

Japanese-English

news of someone's death; obituary

infamous; notorious

lower tier; lower step; lower column; lower berth; bottom shelf

votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

oral cavity; mouth

crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray

chilly; unpleasantly cold

grain (of wood)

middle of the night; dead of night

endlessly; continuously; (going) on and on

to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude