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spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful

5

cut; cutting; haircut; shuffle (cards); shuffling; scene

2

OK; okay

9

long

1

and then; after that

7

story; tale; legend; plot; storyline

1

wish; desire; ambition

2

unrequited love; one-sided love

1

eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality

1

yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration

1

Muse; one's muse

1

precisely because

1

photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

10

to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate

1

easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all

3

to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)

17

to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder

1

forty; 40

1

son

1

mere; simple; sheer

2

jealousy; envy

1

don't worry about it; forget about it

4

always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively

5

to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to take good care of; to look after

5

big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with

1

facial expression; countenance; look; appearance; expression (vocal, etc.)

10

village

2

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

4

style; manner; way; after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time)

4

(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups

2

thanks

1

birthmark; nevus; bruise

1

feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment

14

hotel

1

hotel voucher; accommodation voucher

1

occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom

7

child

3

to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

2

privately; with outsiders barred; en famille

1

unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!

3

boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive

1

considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal

3

value; worth; merit

2

enterprise; business; company; corporation

1

Hinode Park

1

forest; shrine grove

10

Tatsuo

6

grandpa; gramps

1

(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)

1

to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on; to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on

4