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first day; opening day

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repeating a year (at school); staying in the same class for another year

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future; (future) prospects; bringing (from abroad, another region, etc.); bringing about; giving rise to

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exclusive; attached to; specialist

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all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total

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subject; curriculum

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professor; teaching; instruction

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English (language)

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mathematics

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slightly; faintly

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red; crimson; scarlet; Red; communist

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only; nothing but

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championship; title (of champion); championship game; championship tournament

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woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)

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report; information

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set one's teeth on edge

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as a child; when one was a child

3

last chance

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now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

1

brains; brain tissue

1

easygoing; optimistic; conceited

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main hall; great hall; large hall; reception hall

1

strenuous effort; earnestness; seriousness

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to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

1

influential; prominent; leading; strong; powerful; likely

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row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally

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Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures); Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)

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Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

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to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

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or; otherwise

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silent profile (in cell phones); silent mode; vibrate mode

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knee; lap; knee and thigh (while sitting)

2

to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother

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to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate

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to find resolution; to be settled; to be collected; to be assembled; to be well arranged; to be in order

1

one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years

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president (of a society); chairman

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safe; in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); all right; OK

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opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse

2

cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool-headed; cool (i.e. fashionable or stylish); course (of medical treatment)

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(not) one

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how many times

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faintly; dimly; slightly; barely

1

evening calm

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to long (for); to yearn (for); to love ardently; to do eagerly; to do with restless anticipation

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tsubo; traditional unit of land area, approx. 3.3 square meters; tsubo; traditional unit of fabric or paper area, approx. 9.18 square centimeters; tsubo; traditional unit of leather or tile area, approx. 918 square centimeters

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chafing; grinding (e.g. teeth); binding tightly; pulling tight (e.g. a bow); rotating quickly; hurting sharply

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Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri); katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae); (arch.) cricket

4

targeting; aiming at a specific target; selective hitting; swinging only at certain types of pitches; having no choice in a move (in mahjong, go, etc.)

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flying; false start; doing something before the scheduled time or date; breaking the street date

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