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within the school

4

bus stop

1

lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; life line (in palm reading)

1

premature

1

turning by hand; hand-turned; hand-cranked; preparations; arrangements

1

suffering; distress; difficulty; hardship; misery; being bogged down

3

nickname

1

difficult voyage; hard flight; rough going; rough passage; running into trouble

4

other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

3

as (somebody) says

1

milkshake

1

drinking straw; straw

1

to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos

1

lawsuit; complaint

3

library (usu. single-room); small library

1

Maurice Wilkes

1

affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship

1

operating principles

1

listen!; you see; mind you; remember

3

wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood

1

to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate

1

to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy

3

Seizou

1

diamond (mineral, gemstone); diamond; infield; diamond (card suit)

1

general review (e.g. of one's lessons); dress rehearsal

2

large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)

1

face with no make-up; unpainted face; true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.); real face; sober face; sobriety

1

to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of

1

old boy; alumnus; graduate; out of bounds (golf)

1

dozens; scores of; decades

5

companion (sister) volume (to); sequel (to)

2

to break through; to penetrate; to pierce

4

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

1

abundant; plentiful; rich; ample

10

lively group (usu. young people); dynamic bunch; group (art)

1

Kenji

1

daily publication; daily issue

1

newspaper company

1

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

2

Miyagi (prefecture)

2

Yoshio

2

fourth

5

separate volume; extra issue; supplement; additional volume; supplementary volume

1

domestic; domestically-produced; produced within a country

2

Aiso Hideo (1932-)

1

joint; common

1

spacious; vast; wide

4

returning to (one's home in) Tokyo; returning to (one's home in) the capital

1

group; party; team; squad; section

1

organization; organisation; systematization; systematisation

1