Vocabulary

thank-you party

cost of a car

physical properties; properties of matter; physicality

outside a gate; beyond one's area of expertise

patronage; protection

written and spoken words; description

hostile nature; inimical character

(adding) extra fertilizer or manure (fertiliser)

(natural) lighting (of an interior space)

(apportioning) in small amounts

(former) postal note (abolished in 1951); postal order; postal money order

gun barrel

diadem; jeweled crown

the Peace Corps

foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

loyal retainer

wicked; evil; profligate; immoral

shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine

before god; before an altar

divinity

electrical appliance

inherent; innate

to finish; to end; to be completed; to be resolved

sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)

sake brewer; sake brewery

tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person

mistake; error; discrepancy

shark

remaining business

to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot

manual; instructions; guide

to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes

owned by the city

to give up (all thoughts of); to abandon; to despair of

prudence; discretion; thought; consideration

shiatsu; acupressure; form of Japanese finger-pressure therapy

edamame (green soybeans)

private letter; personal letter; private message

trial; trying out; giving (something) a trial

to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge