account book; register; ledger
listening (esp. in foreign language education); listening comprehension; interview (with a client, etc.); survey; (public) hearing
easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk
yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so
grazing; skimming; almost touching; barely; just; narrowly
introduction (from abroad); transmission (through successive generations); being handed down (from generation to generation); being passed down
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family
Heike family; Taira family
imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion
predecessor; pioneer; ancestor
subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict
tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.); squash
doll; puppet; marionette; puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man
to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
ominous; ill-omened; inauspicious; unlucky; sinister
exorcism; ceremonial cleansing from evil influence; exorcism performed door to door, in exchange for beans and money (on the night of New Year's Eve or Setsubun)
field (for growing wheat, fruit, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth
generation; lifetime; the age; the day; the first (e.g. Elizabeth I); issei
jack-o'-lantern; jack o'lantern
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
straw doll; straw figure; straw effigy
trailing; chasing after; imitation; imitating; clinginess (in babies, toddlers)
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
sphere; globe; ball; sphere; counter for pitches
preface; introduction; lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); lead up; payment in advance (by bank transfer); swinging (one's body) forward
capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; shichimi pepper
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
bell pepper (esp. green); green pepper; sweet pepper; capsicum
common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); kidney bean; navy bean; wax bean; green bean; string bean
peanut (Arachis hypogaea); groundnut