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sorry; excuse me; thank you

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dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding

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to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

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it seems that; as if

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uppercase letter; capital letter; large character; large writing; the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year

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letter (of alphabet); character; writing

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cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware

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beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully

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the very best; excellent; superb

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expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately

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this sort of; this kind of; like this; such

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to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

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imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action

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well; now; then

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reveal of how a trick is done; disclosure of a secret (cause, source, etc.); exposure; explanation

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holy tree; sacred tree; Christmas tree

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to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum

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birth (regal); nativity

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evening; night; dinner

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pollution; contamination; corruption; graft

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to be smeared; to be covered

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town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares

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eternal slumber; everlasting rest; death

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blessing

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road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

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the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result

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big; large; great

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cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship

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mainly; primarily

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to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

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hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa

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middle-aged man; Buddhist priest

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second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student

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poem

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to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

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Christmas tree

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head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)

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indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that

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head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest

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(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

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obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction

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finally; in the end; on top of all that

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to make a fool of someone

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now that; since; so long as; because

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certainly; surely; definitely

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to accomplish; to finish; to carry through; to follow through

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to come back

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to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count

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splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight

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to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)

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