broach

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
Yes, the mask--surely it had read the line somewhere before--complimented you on the shape of your fingers and then asked about the cut on your right thumb that you had got making buttons. And after noting that your hand did not attempt to escape its gaze, it broached the subject of human relations, like some algebraic equation that does not include such divers items as name, occupation, and address.
"broach" は過去二度（8/18/2016 / 10/30/2008）取り上げています。
この個所の日本語の原文が気になったので、新潮文庫の【他人の顔】を借りて調べると次の様に書かれていました。

そう、たしか仮面が、どこかで読んで来たような台詞で、おまえの指の形のよさをほめ、ついで、ボタン細工でついた、右手の親指の腹の傷のことを尋ね、それでもおまえの手が、仮面の視線から逃れようともしないのを見とどけてから、名前も、職業も、住居も、そうした条件を一切含まない、代数方程式のような人間関係のことを話題にして、おまえの気持ちを探ろうとしかけた直後のことではなかったかと思う。

stand-in

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
The problem was quite profound. That I thought it profound was itself most profound, Thus, I should probably persevere in the attempt to be your stand-in. It wasn't for I liked, but mobilizing all my memories of your impressions and conversations, I attempted to conjure up various men's expressions, that you might like.
"stand-in" は7/2/2010に取り上げていました。

sleight-of-hand

仕事を休んで久し振りに山陰、山陽に旅行で行ってきました。いった場所は殆んど２度目、３度目でしたが、島根県の足立美術館は初めてでした。
このブログもかなり休みましたが、安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読み始めたので再開します。
As soon as I realized this, an amazing transformation took place within me, as if some master sleight-of-hand artist had waved his handkerchief. I was changed into a merciless assailant, aiming my polished, shining fangs straight at my opponent's neck, like a bat that suddenly darts from an invisible hole.
上の文中に出てきた "sleight-of-hand" はこのブログで直接取り上げてはいませんが、2/26/2011 に取り上げた:
"palm off": “Palming”an object (as in a playing card) is a type of sleight of hand, secretly removing the desired article and leaving only the undesired one.
と 1/8/2010 に取り上げた:
"pass": a motion of the hands that is meant to deceive, as in card tricks or magic; sleight of hand
の説明文の中に出てきていましたね。

anaphora

"Talk like TED" から引用します。
In addition to the charts, animation, and photographs in his presentation, U2's Bono used anaphora very effectively to add more stimulation to the senses. Here are two examples:
...
Facts that can challenge cynicism and apathy that leads to inertia.
Facts that tell us what's working and what's not, so we can fix it.
Facts that if...
"anaphora" の意味は例が出ているので分かりますね。一応英英辞書の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.: An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism.

・Vocabulary.com: When the same word or phrase is used at the beginning of a series of sentences, that's anaphora. Used to show emphasis in speech or writing, anaphora is a popular tool for politicians, religious leaders, lyricists, and poets.
In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous speech, he said "I have a dream" eight different times. He used anaphora as a rhetorical technique, repeating the words to drive home a point. As a literary device, anaphora also gives emphasis and rhythm to lines like these of Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," with the repetition of "it was" eight more times in one sentence. In Greek, anaphora means "a carrying back."
政治家の演説や歌詞でも "anaphora" は頻繁に使われていますね。

Smoker

Reader's Digest 9月号 "All in a Day's Work" からの引用です。
A patient came to the hospital with a burned right hand. As the doctor took down his medical history, he asked the injured man, "Do you smoke?"
"Yeah, a pack and a half a day," said the patient.
Concerned, the doctor told him, "You should consider quitting."
"No, it's OK," said the patient. "I smoke with my left hand."

auburn

Reader's Digest 9月号 "All in a Day's Work" からの引用です。
During a lesson about adjectives, my friend, an elementary school teacher, asked her class to describe their mothers. One boy described his mother's hair as auburn.
Impressed by his sophisticated word choice, my friend asked, "How do you know her hair color is auburn?"
Her student replied,"Because that's what it says on the box."

ingratiation

"Talk like TED" から引用します。
In The Psychology of Humor, Martin argues that humor is used as an "ingratiation tactic," making it easier to be accepted in a group. This explains why so many famous comedians have experienced difficult childhoods or have gone through a period when they felt like outcasts. They used humor to ingratiate themselves to the group, and they used it so often that they refined it to the point where they could make a living at it.
"ingratiation"/"ingratiate" を辞書で見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them.: He says, ‘You don't know whether she was trying to ingratiate herself to other kids by doing favours.

・Collins Dictionary: If someone tries to ingratiate themselves with you, they do things to try and make you like them.: Many politicians are trying to ingratiate themselves with her.

・Dictionary.com: to establish (oneself or someone else) in the favor or good graces of someone, especially by deliberate effort (usually followed by with): He ingratiated himself with all the guests.
動詞で使う時は "ingratiate oneself" とするのですね。

showstopper

Carmine Gallo "Talk like TED" からの引用です。
Near the end of the concert, Pink, dressed in a gold bodysuit, jumped into a harness that propelled her high in the air like Tinker Bell and carried her across the entire length of the sold-out 17,000-person arena. Perches were stationed around the arena, where Pink would land for a few moments, closer to fans, then get pulled away to zip across the stadium while belting out one of her anthems. A reviewer for the Hollywood Reporter called it the showstopper. "It was beginning to seem like just another pop show with song-and-dance routines, but she pulled out all the stops with the encore of So What...
"showstopper" は字面からするとショーを駄目にする感じですが、文脈から全くその反対の意味の様です。辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A song or other performance receiving prolonged applause from the audience.: he wants every scene to be a showstopper

・Collins Dictionary: If something is a showstopper, it is very impressive.: Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: a piece in a stage performance that the audience enjoy so much that their clapping and shouts of approval interrupt the performance: a showstopping performance
文字通り "showstopper" は厄介者の意味で使われることもある様です。
・Oxford English Dictionary:

a) An obstacle to further progress.: the subsidy limits proved to be a showstopper for other senior Democrats who refused to pass the bill with such restrictions
b) A bug that needs to be fixed before a piece of software can be used or released.: there were several last minute showstoppers that derailed the Beta 2 rollout

In ten years or Now

Reader's Digest 9月号 "Laughter the Best Medicine" からの引用です。
Two regulars are sitting at a bar when one of them casually points to a couple of drunks across from them. "That's us in ten years," he says.
His friend takes a sip from his beer, sets it down on the bar, turns to his friend, and slurs, "That's a mirror."

extra-chunky

"Talk like TED" から引用します。
There are people who like their spaghetti sauce plain; there are people who like their spaghetti sauce spicy; and there are people who like it extra-chunky.
スパゲティソースがプレイン、スパイシーそして "extra-chunky" と来たので "chunk" は塊なので味ではないから違和感を感じ、辞書で "chunky" を確認しました。

・Oxford English Dictionary: (of food) containing chunks or thick pieces of something.: a chunky soup

・Collins Dictionary: consisting of or containing thick pieces: chunky dog food

・Cambridge English Dictionary: Chunky foods have pieces or lumps mixed into a smooth base: I love chunky peanut butter!
そういえば、レトルトのカレーなどは余り "chunky" ではないのが多いですね。