Vocabulary

wild grape; wild grapevine; ampelopsis

after ages; posterity; future life; the next world

worry; anguish

concentrated sulfuric acid; concentrated sulphuric acid

hare (esp. the Japanese hare, Lepus brachyurus)

Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora)

blunder; miss; slip; oversight

eavesdropping; tapping

uremia

(ticket) punching

tail and fins

caudal fin; tail fin

remaining years (of an old person's life)

jumping to hasty conclusions; conjecture

starboard (side of a ship)

cercopithecoid (any Old World monkey of family Cercopithecidae, esp. the guenons of genus Cercopithecus)

your body; your health; yourself

anguish; trouble; agony

hot compress

late spring frost

prime of manhood

mother ship

lightning strike

fame; renown; great name

cutting one's hair before entering a monastery; tonsure

comfortable retirement

fall of a castle; surrender of a castle

losing one's life; death

butyric acid

cutting one's hair before entering a monastery; tonsure

violent conduct; misconduct; dissipation; profligacy; debauchery

environmentally damaging (indiscriminate) development

overproduction; careless manufacture; churning out (substandard goods)

exposure

courteous reception; honorable treatment; honourable treatment

etiquette; courtesy; manners

(gun) salute

chilled dessert; frozen dessert

falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin

genius; beauty; charm