Vocabulary list: Baccano! 1934 - Volume 1 (Alice in Jails, 獄中編)

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Jack Dempsey
1
Donald Brown (anthropologist)
1
allotment (of land); parcelling out
1
San Francisco Bay
3
gold rush
1
Andrew Carnegie
1
Elson
4
Brinvilliers
1
Empire State Building
1
Missouri
25
to hypnotize; to hypnotise
1
large beam balance; weighbeam
1
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
1
falling apart while cooking
1
Ku Klux Klan; KKK
1
to grab at; to clutch; to grapple with
1
nothing one can say (e.g. about something perfect); not a thing one can complain about; better than one could hope for
1
to have no way of knowing; to be completely ignorant of
1
oppressive pain; tenderness; pressure pain
1
opium addiction
1
quarrelsome; easy to anger
1
depreciation
1
Newark
1
Becker
2
to easily attain victory; to dupe; to swindle
1
Edgar Allan Poe
1
arrow wheel (decorative windmill on the pole on which carp streamers are raised)
6
close call; narrow escape
1
overdrinking; excessive drinking
1
Capone
1
ship's convoy
1
selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls
1
the American dream
2
Al Capone
2
Czeslaw
2
Hoover; Hover
1
Walken
14
very small amount; insignificant thing; negligible amount
1
leaping; jumping; spring; exciting
1
gangster
3
sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)
1
Gustavo
11
Manfred
1
millionaire
3
green salad
1
New Yorker
1
inexhaustible supply
5
major-leaguer; member of a major-league team
1
Native American
1
airhead (of a male); ditz
1