Vocabulary
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bourgeois society
Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s
new zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period)
skim reading
reading the first character of each line of a horizontally written text (to reveal a hidden word or message); reading acrostically
siccative (drying agent)
link back to discussion group, bulletin board, etc. posting
baby powder
(telephone) area code (non-local)
(urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto)
year on year; on the previous year
pushing through; bulldozing; doing something by force; arm twisting
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink
photon torpedo
squatter
full-screen display; (displaying in) full screen
full screen
electricity consumption
ordinate
cathedral
sonic boom
Sonic (the Hedgehog)
transonic speed
shock therapy; shock treatment
shock therapy; shock treatment
electroshock therapy
impulse turbine
impulse turbine
reaction turbine
impulsive force
nephrite
kingfisher
calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
bud; sprout
philodendron
general secretary (of the Workers' Party of Korea or the Communist Party of Vietnam)
gloriosa (flower)
echium (flower)
statice (flower); sea-lavender
ixora chinensis (flower)