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net auction; Internet auction; online auction; web auction

1

successful bid; winning a tender

1

misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune

1

modeller; modeler

1

plastic model

2

romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance

1

trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)

5

four people

8

shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

1

apple (fruit); apple tree (Malus pumila)

2

certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)

1

righteousness; justice; right

1

the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous

1

empress; queen

1

kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)

1

next (year, spring, etc.); coming; since (last month, etc.); for (20 years, etc.)

1

fatal

1

petting zoo

3

number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

3

convulsion; cramp; spasm; tic; twitch; fit

1

mahjong; mah-jongg

1

rule

1

rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)

12

to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)

3

to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end

6

sympathy; empathy; response

1

cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

2

counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

6

to reread; to read again

1

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

4

won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you

13

chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and served on rice

1

katsuobushi; small pieces of sliced dried bonito

1

coal mine; (coal) pit; colliery; coal-mine shaft

1

occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle

2

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

6

bicycle; bike

2

trip; excursion; outing

1

to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch

3

scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)

2

walking about town; stroll around town; walking the streets (e.g. for exercise)

1

sound of bubbles (or other small objects) being popped; lumpy sensation (e.g. of food); little bits; small grains

1

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

2

history

1

novel; (short) story

1

covering; filled in; complete; total; cliched; clichéd; plaintext

1

jigsaw puzzle

1

schedule; program; programme; itinerary

1

hard worker; hardworking person

2

after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to

2