Word+Finder


 * Word Finder**

Chapter 1-7 (Amanda Perkins)

Picture Bride uses many Japanese words in the book.

tatami: Japanese straw floor covering; text: If only she could see a famil8iar face, eat a meal without retching, walk on solid ground and stretch out at night on //tatami// mat instead of in a hard narrow bunk.(pg. 5)

tabi: Japanese socks with split toe; text: "My clothes are not right," she murmured, ticking her feet with their whit //tabi// and zori as far beneath the bench as she could. (pg. 14)

tadaima: I'm home; text: "Tadaima! I'm home!" (pg. 17)

daika:Japanese white radish; text: There were sacks of reic, tubs of bean paste, bean curd cakes in vats of cold water, barrels of soy sauce and pickled //daikon// whose pungent smells filled the shop in spite of the wooden lids on their bins. (pg. 45)

disparage:to speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; text: If Kiku had been in Japan, she would have served her elegant mealdemurring that she was a poor cook and //disparaging// her own efforts.(pg. 18)

reverently: marked by, feeling, or expressing reverence; text: There was some fifteen of them. their heads all bent //reverently// in prayer. (pg. 21)

spittoon: a bowl-shaped, usually metal vessel, often with a funnel-shaped cover, into which tobacco chewers periodically spit; text: They thought spittoons was used to wash faces. (pg. 38)