Vocabulary

extremely troubled; very puzzled

ring-shaped; annular

ring-shaped; circular

southernmost

arranged; organized; orderly; neat

snow-white; pure; immaculate

ultimate; final

postwar

white silk

hydrophobic

shaped like an ear of grain

nudity

good for eating; ripe enough for eating; in season

greenish

antisubmarine

egg-sized

hand-sewn; sewn by hand

not busy; unengaged; being free

isotonic

Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; metropolitan prefecture

grains; lumps; drops; beads; pulp

the pick; the choice

spindle-shaped; fusiform

somewhat loose

superb (view, landscape)

whole-wheat

peerless; matchless; unrivaled; unrivalled; unequaled; unequalled

African elephant (Loxodonta africana); African bush elephant

smart; clever; witty; strange

grazed skin; abraded skin

dawn; daybreak

easily bored; quick to lose interest; fickle; capricious

ventral massage

benzoin

to turn up (one's face)

arhat

calm before the storm; lull before the storm

sodium sulfite

sweating easily; profuse sweater

smell(ing) of sweat