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to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)

4

call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question

1

anonymous report; (secret) information; tip-off; informing (against)

2

support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

2

one's last moments; (on) the point of death; (on) one's deathbed

1

strange; odd; unusual

2

meeting (with another person)

1

getting tired of; getting sick of; getting bored with; getting fed up with

1

personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR

6

other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

1

photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

5

circulation (esp. documents); sending round

1

to look through; to hold up to the light; to make an opening; to leave space; to fart without making a sound

2

a telegraph

3

things; affairs

1

to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well

2

Japanese person; Japanese people

2

Chinese person

1

Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha

4

Confucius

2

exposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines

1

however; nevertheless; but; and yet; whereas; while

1

originator; founder

1

study; research; investigation

9

study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship

3

steady progress; rapid advance

1

old customs

1

adherence (to custom, tradition)

1

to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)

1

national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

1

to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

7

study; diligence; discount; reduction

1

to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on

2

deep emotion; impression; inspiration

6

dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

1

vein (esp. in head)

1

ringleader; chief

1

talented person; great man; great woman

2

to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

2

to take out (e.g. garbage); to put out (e.g. dishes on table); to serve (e.g. meal); to get out (e.g. food from cupboard); to submit (e.g. ideas, opinions); to provide for

2

physics and chemistry

11

to fasten one's eye on (a person); to stare at

4

have no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to

1

common camellia (Camellia japonica)

1

why; how

3

to speak unanimously; to speak in chorus; to speak in unison; to speak in one voice

1

experiment

1

hydrogen (H)

1

oxygen (O)

2

to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on

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