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fresh spring roll (i.e. not fried); summer roll; Vietnamese salad roll

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rental house; rental housing; house to let

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skateboard; skateboarding

4

exhibition; exhibition game

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financier (type of pastry)

3

quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful

1

sham marriage; fake marriage

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elder brother's wife; sister-in-law

3

if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

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sense of rhythm; rhythmical sense

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ice cream soda; icecream soda

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to attract interest; to get attention to appeal

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agent; agency

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creation; birth; formation; naissance; construction

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wedding present

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don't get me wrong, but ...; I'm sorry

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having slow reflexes; being nonathletic; person who is not athletic

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full stop; period; end

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pinch-hitting

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deep snow

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cecum; caecum; (vermiform) appendix; appendicitis

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large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting)

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(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances

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to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)

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cat lover; ailurophile; love of cats

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to draw (water); to scoop up; to dip up; to understand (someone's feelings, etc.); to grasp; to surmise

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fanfare; flourish of trumpets

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clearing one's throat; cough

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rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

3

competition

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ouch

3

taking part on the spur of the moment; participating without registering beforehand; last-minute entrant; specking on flower petals

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style (of a work, author, artist, etc.); characteristics

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attraction; lure; invitation

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special sale

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to neglect; to leave undone; to lay aside

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A district in Shibuya, Tokyo famous for being the center of Japanese youth culture and fashion

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check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base

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celebration; celebratory event; congratulatory gift; tip; gratuity

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input

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attention; giving one's attention; focusing

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stole; scarf; stall (of an engine or aircraft); stall (cattle)

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ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

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scone

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haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

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Mexico

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stopgap; makeshift; temporary measure

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selling out; being sold out

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one roll; one book; one volume; first volume; rolling once; wrapping once around

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to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit

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