beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia); round-leaf vitex
to go too far; to break bounds
secondary capital city (of historical China)
Indian mustard (Brassica juncea); Chinese mustard; leaf mustard; brown mustard; mustard greens
fiber-optic cable; fibre-optic cable
cutting class; absence from school
Pandanus boninensis (species of screw pine)
European linden (Tilia x europaea); common lime
booby (esp. the brown booby, Sula leucogaster); gannet
bur (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes); burr
double room (e.g. at a hotel)
needless to say; it goes without saying that
Okinawan dish of grated carrot stir-fried with egg and sometimes meat or fish
to depend on one's parents' (financial) support; (lit.) to nibble at one's parents' shins
White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); scaly thrush
to exhaust all one's options
bottlenose dolphin; bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
to move up (e.g. date, rank, order); to be advanced; to be carried (of a number in addition)
strangely; oddly; mysteriously
to blink repeatedly; to wave repeatedly (e.g. a paper fan)
to add (to what was said before); to say in addition
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays
awkward; uncomfortable; embarrassing
contrastive; contrasting; contradistinctive
totally naked; buck naked
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
Pearce; Peirce; Peerce; Pierce
muscles of the back; back muscles
to tighten the reins; to bring (someone) under control
authorized absence; permission of absence from class(es)
relief service (bus, train, etc.); interim service; additional service
cat tongue; thin cookie or chocolate shaped like a tongue