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one and only; unique

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way of life

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encouragement (as an abstract concept); stimulation

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acquaintance

1

all; everyone; everybody; everything

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to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded

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whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing

2

precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred

2

rare; seldom

2

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

1

raid; assault; descent

1

class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate

1

to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry

1

let's see what you've got; show me what you've got

1

split among friends; falling out; internal discord

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to attract; to draw near; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion

2

advance; moving forward; progress

1

fighting to be first; scrambling to take the lead

1

delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner

3

advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful

5

bar; bolt (e.g. on door); double-arm lock; (rope) cinching

1

invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass

1

retreat; withdrawal; retirement

3

crushing defeat

1

notice; notification

1

heart

1

to project; to protrude; to pop out (e.g. eyes); to jump out; to rush out

1

winter campaign of the siege of Osaka (1614 CE)

1

tea grinding mortar (hand mill)

6

command; direction

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Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi

1

hard struggle; strenuous effort

2

retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)

1

to lure someone; to entice someone

1

keeping an alternative up one's sleeve; two-stage preparation

1

volley firing; fusillade; broadside

1

to pour on

1

overwhelming victory; crushing victory; sweeping victory; landslide victory

2

delight; great joy

1

to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil; to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to ferment; to melt (of metal)

1

brain; brains; mind

2

astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful

1

the newest research

1

postnatal; post partum

1

counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

1

swelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy

1

ability; faculty

1

to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

1

useless; vain; aimless; idle

1

cannon

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