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control; management (e.g. of a business)

1

pressure; clamping; tightening; fastening

1

hug

3

riverbank; riverside

3

ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata)

1

the same; the said; likewise

1

paper patch; paper backing; poster; sticker; label

1

edamame (green soybeans)

1

dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)

1

Uedamachi

1

tumor; tumour; swelling; boil; abscess

1

Snufkin

1

Moomin (troll characters in Tove Jansson's series of books)

1

going straight to the point; cutting it short; as it turns out

1

closing; closure; shutdown; lockout

2

2008 financial crisis; global financial crisis; GFC

1

to go on the defensive; to play it safe

1

to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard

1

torque

2

top-class

1

consistency; coherence; one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); one piece of sushi

1

so to speak; so to call it; as it were

2

obstacle; hurdle

2

to mow down; to cut down; to knock down; to defeat; to beat

1

to parry; to sidestep; to dodge

1

to make a payment via bank deposit transfer; to discard another player's winning tile

1

guard on sword, polearms, etc.; flange; brim; visor (e.g. of a hat)

1

foreign country

1

opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor

2

slight intoxication; being tipsy

1

stream; brook; creek

4

Tomomi

1

long life; longevity

1

Guinness; Gwyneth

1

world record; establishing a world record (in)

2

(within) the (Tokyo) metropolitan area

1

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)

14

giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange

1

season (period in which regulated games are played); season (division of the year); season (of a TV show, etc.); season (for doing something, e.g. ski season, entrance examination season)

1

to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over

1

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced

2

to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon

11

baseball player; ballplayer

1

celebration

1

ill-natured; mean; mischievous; nasty; unkind; teasing

1

surprise

1

when it comes to ...; concerning; where ... are concerned

1

lover; rubber

1

middle-aged woman who looks very young for her age (as through "magic")

2

Northern Europe; Nordic countries; Scandinavia

3