candid, heart to heart

candor, frankness

complete, all-out, general, full-scale

a jiangshi

xanthine (group of alkaloids, including caffeine)

Yekaterinburg (a city, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia)

being volatile (evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions), volatility

academic (scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific)

beg / invite / ask

surreal, surrealist, surrealistic