Vocabulary

waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant); hostess

to keep watch (e.g. on a suspect); to be on the lookout (for); to lie in wait (for); to keep under surveillance; to stake out

to be in high spirits; to be full of vigor (vigour); to be enthusiastic; to be eager; to stretch to breaking point

(carved) statue; sculpture

an unsettled course of action; (orders or laws) being revised often with no guiding principles

making up a prescription; dispensing a prescription; preparing a medicine

transcendence; transcendency

(a) jump

to jump; to leap; to prance; to spring up; to bound; to hop

goosebumps; gooseflesh; goose pimples

work tabi; split-toed heavy cloth shoes with rubber soles

to spread (of flames)

stickiness; viscosity; glutinosity

double amount

to build a market for; to promote (a product); to sell; to become well known

count; earl

99th birthday

hair ornament

semicircle

hemisphere

servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling

pathetic; sad; sorrowful; grievous

complete translation

side wall

bundle; control; management

to add (numbers)

stamping one's feet (in anger, frustration, etc.); scuffing the ground

valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable

to return a punch; to strike back

prenatal influence of the mother on her unborn baby; teaching one's unborn baby (e.g. by playing music, etc.)

trapezium; trapezoid

watershed; divide

denominator

depot ship; mother ship

discharging (electrically; e.g. of a battery)

square

spinning and weaving

concentricity

concentric circles

cohabitation (esp. of an unmarried couple); living together