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increasing; uploading; posting (e.g. content); close-up; finishing shooting (of a film, etc.); upswept hairstyle; being up (i.e. leading in sports)

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cold; cold cream; cold wave; cold permanent wave

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bean

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custard

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Japanese style; Japanesque; Japanism

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transparent; clear

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clear soup

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legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small

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cold tofu

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aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu; frying in oil; deep-fried food

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diameter

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large plate; platter

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meatball

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spaghetti

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embankment made of earth; bank; levee

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Victoria (Seychelles); Victoria (Australia)

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cutlet (usu. crumbed and fried)

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heap; pile; stack; full measure

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anemia; anaemia

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bankruptcy; insolvency

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Independence Day celebration

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humid; sultry

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rainy season (in Japan usu. from early June to mid-July); rain during the rainy season

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who?

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good humour (humor); good mood

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chance meeting

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squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

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(romantic) love

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to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to imagine; to guess; to infer

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place that is often written about in waka poetry; oft-repeated descriptive epithets in poetry

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feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

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dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour

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to meet; to greet

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guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation

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high time; about time

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order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive

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selfish; egoist; (arch.) self-indulgent; (arch.) wilful; (arch.) willful

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rich person

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plan; scheme; (payment) plan; package; deal

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shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext

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to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat

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sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

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abandoned child; foundling

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warmth

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to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)

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interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance

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bath

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undressing; taking off one's clothes

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basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

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flannel

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