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Fujisawa

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cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)

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human ecology

1

Yale University

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Torako

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affiliate; member; entrant; participant; (telephone) subscriber

3

ghost writer

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unbelievable

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checking one's e-mail

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self-publishing; publishing at one's own expense

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clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine)

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to spend all of one's time in idle amusement

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study abroad destination

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faked information; bogus intelligence; disinformation

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give-and-take; give and take

1

career woman

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installment; instalment; premium; bill

2

circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle

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royalty (on book)

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based on; built on; made from

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associate professor

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department (faculty) of literature

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getting an advance (on one's salary)

2

coughing; hacking cough; thundering; drumming

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deep psyche; unconscious mind; depth psychology

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income

6

to use excessively; to use too much; to spend too much; to overwork someone

1

hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)

3

true story

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necessary expense

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branch office

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science (inc. mathematics, medicine, etc.); natural science; science department (university); science course; science (as a school subject)

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bestseller

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afterword; postscript

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pace; rate; pitch (i.e. angle, space, field, sound, etc.); pitch (from distilling petroleum, tar, etc.); pitch (football, rugby); playing field

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hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)

1

goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre

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coexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis

4

mailbox; letter box; letterbox; mail slot

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attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning

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selling out; being sold out

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real experience; actual observations

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performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

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to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear

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peep; peeping; peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

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big hit; smash hit; popular item (e.g. movie, music)

1

compensation; reparation

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head; chief; chairman; governor; top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

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jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point

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upper reaches of a river; upstream

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