Vocabulary

skyscraper

full load; being fully loaded (with); being loaded to capacity (with); carrying a full load (of)

noun

clear explanation

cotton cloth; cotton material

wood carving; wooden sculpture; woodcraft

alarm clock

eye drops; eyewash

night watch; night watchman

rustic; country bumpkin; countryfolk

ring finger; third finger; fourth finger (esp. in piano-playing)

postal money order

rehearsal

infant; baby; little child

Western-style house (esp. one built in the Meiji or Taisho periods)

mutton; lamb (meat)

cigar

ritsuryō; criminal, administrative and civil codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models

vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

both persons

physical work; manual labour (labor)

apple (fruit)

turret; watchtower

shoulder (of a road); berm

Laozi; Lao Tzu; Lao Tse

folding one's arms

divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment

taste; liking; preference

rivalry (between two equally strong sides); struggle for supremacy; competing (with); vying (with); contending (with); being an equal match (for)

law; regulation; rule; code; agreement; arrangement

salt damage (from seawater, sea air, etc.)

personal affairs; private matter

seven colours (of the rainbow); prismatic colors

wet nurse; nursing mother

kaleidoscope

spiral; helix

aikido

dead tree; withered tree

assassin's bullet

condolence; condolences