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spasmodic(ally); fitful

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retail

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merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper

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autobiography

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unity; coherence; consistency; settlement; conclusion; completion

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to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted

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manner of speaking; verbal argument; objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee); rumor; rumour

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easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply

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humanity; human nature

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strength; intensity; strong (e.g. glasses); powerful (e.g. lens); intense (e.g. fear)

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subject; theme

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to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on

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to need; to demand; to take; to require

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desert

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mountains

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to be jumbled together

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unthinkable; count for nothing; not matter; out of the question

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expatiation; enlargement (e.g. on a point); elaboration; clear explanation; paraphrasing

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modesty; humility; being humble

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cannot be helped; unavoidable

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(young) hoodlum; delinquent boy; small-time yakuza; brat; little shit

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rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk

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lazybones; good-for-nothing; idler; slacker; loafer

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smoky; awkward; ill at ease

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at once; immediately; right away; directly (face, lead to, etc.); automatically (mean, result in, etc.)

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to lick

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criticism; critique; review; commentary

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reverence; respect

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to knock out (e.g. homer); to slam; to send flying (e.g. a ball); to wallop (someone)

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stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration

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to increase; to grow

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none

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difficult; hard

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way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)

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performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact

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perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem

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decision; determination

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lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods

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Japanese clothes

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band (e.g. conduction, valence); belt (e.g. Van-Allen, asteroid, etc.)

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assembly hall; meeting place; venue; grounds

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shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety

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any beech tree of genus Castanopsis

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Kitagawa Fuyuhiko

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Kaneko Mitsuharu

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Haruyama Yukio

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qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

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small village; hamlet

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glittering stars

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poetic circles; world of poetry

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