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proportional division; proportional distribution

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English proficiency test (esp. the STEP test)

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Nakahama

1

ovary

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paying loan installments whenever one happens to have money (instalments)

1

wedding preparations

1

to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age

1

directly under; falling perpendicularly

1

carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; bucket carried on either end of a pole

1

Kikaijima

1

Jiemon

3

Shunsai

2

foreign voyage; travelling overseas; travelling abroad

1

doctor practising Western medicine (during the Edo period)

1

halfway; midway; partway; mid-course

1

Kumakichi

2

300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

1

knowledge applied to evil purposes

1

Manjirou

13

exemplar; model; example; pattern

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Shingo

2

evil eye

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to wrestle with; to contest an issue; to take part in sumo

1

remote island; distant island; punishment by exile to a remote island

1

movie; film

1

marsh land; swamp

4

stone weight (as used on pickle-tub covers); weight (as used in balances)

1

old saying; old expression; old language; ancient language; archaic word

1

betrothal; wedding; marriage into a family; adoption

1

lowly people (Edo period); eta

1

meeting place; club

1

origin; beginning; genesis; primeval; primordial; primitive

3

hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game

1

elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy

1

to become famous

1

maliciousness; ill will; noxious gas; (arch.) (vengeful) ghost; (arch.) specter

2

losing initiative; being forestalled; second move (in go or shogi); moving second; rear guard

8

open water pipe; conduit

2

Dutch studies; studies of Western knowledge

1

pardon; remission; amnesty

1

let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect

1

cauldron

1

flint; firestone

1

(one's) exclusive use; private use; dedicated use; use for a particular purpose; exclusive use (of particular products); using only (e.g. a certain brand)

1

lodging; boarding; boarding house; school dormitory

1

(festivity) page; baby; child; (arch.) boys kept by pederasts

4

extravagant; absurd

1

smuggling (people); stowing away

1

son; punk; brat; penis

1

to be mistaken for; to be confused with

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