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near-death; close to death

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strong independent Japanese woman from the Kochi area

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elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff

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scorn; disdain; contempt

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climbing a tower; going up a tall building; visiting a brothel

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packing; non-metallic seal; washer; gasket

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emergency medicine

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to finish; to end; to be completed; to fulfill one's obligations

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travelling on foot; traveling on foot; travelling all over

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drain

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suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense

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benign

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unjust; inhuman

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ligation; ligature

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drowned body of a person

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it is none of one's business; it is not one's place to say (do) something

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to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

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dissection; autopsy

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fool; blockhead; idiot; dunce

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raid

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ama; female diver (who collects shells, seaweed, etc.)

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armpit; axilla

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right?; don't you think?; don't you agree?

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formalin

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forceps

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to leave to chance; to resign oneself to one's fate; to leave the rest to heaven

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slack; looseness; play

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white kimono

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to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for

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grave; serious; alarming

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to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

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to put the scalpel to; to perform an operation on; to take drastic measures to get to the bottom of something; to make a searching inquiry; to put something under the microscope

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first warbling heard in a New Year

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detention (usu. during investigation); imprisonment; poundage; custody

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sorry; excuse me; thank you

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to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree

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despite being a woman; woman as she is; (in a way that is) unbecoming to a woman; (in a way that is) uncharacteristic of a woman; in an unladylike way

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one's family; one's clan

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inexperienced person; incompetent person; ignoramus

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to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

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to get shabby; to go downhill; to go to seed; to go to the dogs

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anesthetic; anaesthetic; narcotic

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possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership

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true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo

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pain

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starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); clearing an abacus

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Urashima Tarō; (a) Rip van Winkle; fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later

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abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning

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discarding; firing (an employee)

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to be fit (for a role); to be qualified (for); to be equal (to a task); to be able to fulfill one's duties (as)

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