Vocabulary Browser

to blunder

meridian (in traditional Chinese medicine)

probe (device; electric, magnetic, sonic, etc.)

light used for brightly lighting up a plaza, building, etc.

government subsidy

specialist journal

not knowing when to let go (give up, etc.)

civil official (esp. dealing with literary matters)

three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament

individual championship system

nobody can win against advancing age

government departments

areola mammae (circular area around nipple)

seal used for bank transactions

sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)

European Economic Community

enclosing class

chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament

Shiranui style of grand champion's ring-entering ceremony

large wooden boards listing rankings hung, outside tournament venues

mudstone

wrestlers with the same win-loss record at the end of a tournament

racing noisily (in a car, motorcycle, etc.)

hypothetical rule allowing match-ups between wrestlers regardless of their stable affiliation

immersion quenching (hardening by dropping heated metal into water or oil)

wave number

useless book learning

rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same family

rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same stable

era during mid-1970s dominated by grand champions Wajima and Kitanoumi