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drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice

2

sharing a room, flat, apartment, or house (with roommates, flatmates, etc.)

1

share house

1

edge

1

calling card

1

servant; manservant; menial

1

creative; original

1

price tag; price label

1

to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat

1

binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)

1

serving (of food); helping; chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce

1

eating with one's fingers; snitching food; snatched food; embezzlement; misappropriation; flirting

1

pure

1

gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step

1

(my) wife; inside the home; one's family

1

association; socializing; socialising; fellowship

1

sleeping together

4

to be uneasy; to be anxious; to fear

1

possessiveness; desire to monopolize (monopolise); desire for control

2

distinction (e.g. between right and wrong, public and private, etc.)

1

see; you see; ha

2

guts; bowels; intestines

1

to serve; to dish up; to dish out; to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn

1

to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

1

light; illumination; glow; lamp; light

10

Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

4

to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

1

wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade

1

nursing; looking after

1

home cooking

1

fine weather; fair weather

2

to feel right; to sit well with one; to be happy about; to suit to a T; to fit well together

1

what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about

1

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)

1

sexual desire; sex drive; lust

2

faltering; hesitation

1

acceptable; satisfactory; approval; being in favour; Pass (grade); Fair

2

(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks

1

cell; cell (in an organization, esp. a communist party)

1

pulpy; soppy; sloppy; untidy; in a disarray

1

recollection; retrospection; reflection; reminiscence

1

new work; new production; new composition; new creation; new title

3

based on; on the basis of

1

indispensable; essential

1

line (of text); row; carya (austerities); samskara (formations); semi-cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); running style

23

dependence; reliance

1

to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)

1

easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic

1

tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining

2

help; aid; assistance

1