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form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence

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cryptogram; cipher text

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every time; each round

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evening

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getting (something); obtaining; scoring (goal, point, etc.)

1

code; password; cipher

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to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

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moment; second; instant

2

to rush on; to attack; to swoop down on

1

promise; agreement; arrangement; something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

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rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous

1

special pardon; (general) amnesty

1

protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household

1

work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production

2

Aomori (city, prefecture)

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proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)

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manga aimed at women (romance, marriage, etc.); women's comic

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autumn; fall

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live-action adaptation (of a cartoon or animated movie)

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life-size; life-sized; true-to-life; faithful (depiction); realistic

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intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...

2

to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve

3

feeble joke; bad pun

1

insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness

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dirty joke; blue joke; indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk

1

to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby

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to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only

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reality; actuality; hard fact

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to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)

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fiction

3

kitchen

3

proviso

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subject; theme

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that's so, however ...

3

action

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lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification

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opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat

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to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

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hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

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to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid

1

junior high school student; middle school pupil

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to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

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at that time; in those days

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naughty; mischievous; rascal; naughty kid

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to instigate; to incite; to spur on; to set (e.g. a dog after someone)

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as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively

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one large ...; a great ...

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judo

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great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty

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since then; from that time; ever since

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