| A | B |
|---|
| Abstinence | the act of voluntarily doing without |
| convivial | sociable; jovial |
| diathermy | medical treatment in which heat is produced beneath the skin by high frequency electric current or radiation to warm or destroy tissue |
| estuarial | like an inlet; a delta; any place where rivers meet the ocean; tidal river |
| hedonistic | concerned with pleasure |
| incendiary | designed to cause fires; flammable |
| incessant | never ceasing |
| philanthropy | a desire to help mankind by giving gifts to charitable or humanitarian institutions |
| prefecture | any of the regional districts of Japan administrated by a governor |
| repugnant | distasteful, disagreeable |
| sampan | small boats used in China and Japan |
| volition | exercise of the will; a conscious or deliberate decision |
| xenophobic | fear or hatred of strangers |
| apathetic | feeling little or no emotion; not interested, listless |
| atavistic | to have some characteristic found in a remote ancestor but no tin nearer ancestors |
| awry | with a twist to a side; not straight; askew |
| breviary | a book containing the Psalms, readings, and prayers of the Divine Office |
| catechist | a person who catechizes or instructs adults in the fundamentals of Christianity |
| conflagration | a big, destructive fire. |
| convection | the transfer of heat through its absorption by a fluid at one point followed by motion of the fluid and rejection of the heat at another point |
| extricated | to set free, release, or disentangle |
| miasma | un unwholesome or befogging atmosphere or influence |
| palpable | recognizable; perceptible by touch |
| pickaback | piggyback |
| punt | a flat-bottomed boat with broad, square ends, usually pushed along by a long pole. |
| razed | torn down completely; leveled completely; demolished |
| solicitous | showing care , attention or concern |
| unkindled | not on fire |
| Charnel-house | a building or place where corpses or bones are deposited |
| immolate | to sacrifice; to offer or kill as a sacrifice |
| moribund | dying |
| putrescence | rotting and foul smelling |
| staves | sticks, rods, or poles |
| stupefied | to bring into a state of stupor; stun; make dull or lethargic |
| succinct | clearly and briefly stated |
| succor | to give assistance to in the time of need or distress; help; aid; relieve |
| suppurated | festering, discharging pus |
| anemic | a reduction of the number or red blood corpuscles, resulting in generalized weakness |
| capricious | tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason |
| consecrate | to devote entirely; to dedicate |
| decrepit | broken down or worn out by old age |
| feverfew | a bushy plant of the composite family, with finely divided foliage and flowers with white florets and a yellow disk |
| macabre | grim and horrible |
| malaise | a vague feeling of physical discomfort, and early in an illness |
| moxibustion | the burning of moxa (a soft downy material, burned on the skin as a cauterizing agent in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine) treating various diseases or disorders |
| petechaie | a small hemorrhagic spot in the skin |
| plutonium | a radioactive, metallic chemical element used in nuclear weapons |
| talismanic | bringing good luck |
| verdancy | covered with green vegetation |
| yen | Japanese money |
| crux | basic, central, or critical point |
| emanations | something that comes fourth from a source |
| habakush | explosion or bomb-affected persons |
| Keloid | thick pink scar tissue which forms over radiation burns |
| Asano | the name of a park and evacuation center |
| Kyo | the river near the park |
| Masakazu Fujii | doctor who owned a private hospital |
| John Hersey | author of the book |
| Wilhelm Kliensorge | German priest |
| Nagasaki | where the second bomb was dropped |
| Hatsuyo Nakamura | Tailor's Widow |
| Terufumi Sasaki | doctor at Red Cross Hospital; became wealthy |
| Kiyoshi Tanimoto | Pastor of Hiroshima Methodist Church |
| Toshiko Sasaki | clerk at East Asia Tim Works |
| Mr. B | B-29 bomber |
