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Szechuan dish of noodles covered with a sauce of sesame paste and chili oil

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Namegawa

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stopwatch

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Swahili (language); Kiswahili

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pure; genuine; trueborn; natural-born

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first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student

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century egg; thousand-year old egg; hundred-year old egg; preserved egg (Chinese delicacy)

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looking at again; watching again; discovering again; seeing again

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trying out a pen; test-writing

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au (Japanese mobile phone brand)

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third year of elementary school; third year elementary school student

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rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)

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shaoxingjiu (Chinese alcohol made from rice or glutinous millet)

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children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down

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nee-naw (sound of an emergency vehicle siren); wee-woo

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correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise)

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revolution

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godsend; windfall

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metaphor

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okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu

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third year of high school; third-year high-school student

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Armstrong

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Orion (constellation); the Hunter

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Chinese restaurant

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infertility treatment

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Genga (Italy); Jenga

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personal record; personal best

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the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow

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tick-tock; tick-tack; sound of clock

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first year of high school; first-year high school student

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curious onlookers; rubbernecks

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to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options; to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools

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stationery shop; a stationer

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food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kudzu or katakuriko flour)

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to talk volubly

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Tommy; Tomi

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third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student

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open every day of the year

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bond; adhesive; glue

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attitude to life; form of existence; way of life

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trendy; in; now; currently at ...; now doing ...; in the middle of ...

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khan (medieval ruler of a Tatary tribe)

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second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student

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(spaghetti alla) carbonara

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brat

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reality

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terrace (in a garden)

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recitation (of a poem); chanting; composition (of a poem); composed poem; classical Chinese poetry form; stress of sound in noh song

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alcoholism

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yelp; yap

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