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properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly

5

dress; attire; clothing; getup; outfit; personal appearance

2

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

5

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

14

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

8

summer clothes

3

filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid

1

every time; whenever; as; whether; in (either case)

1

mother; mom; mum; wife

29

care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation

12

good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

8

is it not so?

3

to ponder; to brood

1

pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine

2

greens; vegetable leaves; leaf vegetable

1

broth; soup (esp. miso soup)

1

vinegared dish; pickled dish

1

tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter

1

cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration

1

to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment

23

tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

6

to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)

1

tea cloth; tea napkin

1

tie-dye; tie-dyeing; aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; contraction; squeezing

1

between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea

6

the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...

40

sake bottle; tall and slender bottle with a narrow mouth made from ceramic, metal or glass that can be used for sake, shoyu or rice vinegar; turtleneck (sweater); non-swimmer; person who cannot swim

1

cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)

2

to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around

1

hug; carrying in one's arms (a baby, pet, doll, etc.)

2

carrying on one's back (e.g. baby); piggyback ride

3

one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

2

female help; female labor; woman's handwriting; (arch.) hiragana

1

seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...

33

but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess

2

younger sister

14

so; like this; in this way

11

to live; to reside; to inhabit

5

memories; recollections; reminiscence

1

lips

1

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

1

evening; last night; yesterday evening

1

here and there; in twos and threes; now and then; from time to time; lightly fluttering (of falling petals, leaves, etc.); swirling (in the wind)

1

open-air fire (e.g. for garden refuse); bonfire; open fire (e.g. in a kitchen)

1

female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress

5

to make merry; to frolic; to be in high spirits

2

to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest

1

to be enlivened; to be exhilarated

2

noisily (crowd of people talking); clamorously; in a hubbub; jabberingly; chatteringly; buzzingly

3

friendly chat; pleasant chat; lighthearted talk; friendly conversation

1