discount for early booking
convention center; convention centre
wastebasket; wastepaper basket
bang bang chicken (Szechuan dish of chicken in a spicy sauce)
disapproval; dissent; veto
bog; marsh; swamp; quagmire; morass
back of one's eyes (in which an image or landscape has been metaphorically etched)
must arrive; must be received
no filter (photo); (lit.) without processing
ground toasted sesame seeds; ground sesame
rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)
to vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner
tuning (e.g. a radio, a television); channel selection
to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick
ouch!; hot, hot, hot!; something hot; fire
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
to weaken (of willpower, solidarity, etc.); to lose one's edge; to become less tense; to become lax (of discipline, rules, etc.)
person of importance; a somebody; absolutely; certainly; to be sure
chanpuru; champuru; Okinawan stir-fry dish, usually containing vegetables (especially bitter melon), tofu, meat or fish
recyclable garbage; recyclable waste
squaring; multiplying (a number) by itself; second power
gentleman; well-bred man; well-educated man; people
sprinkling salt on a raw vegetable and rubbing it in
bitter melon stir-fried with pork, tofu and other vegetables
(mixture of) ground beef and pork
row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "i"
to correct cutting; to reshuffle (playing cards)
rash assumption; hasty conclusion
contract negotiation; contract discussion