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contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game

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paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the Moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere)

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d button; data button; button on a TV remote control for accessing programme information, weather, traffic, etc.

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attendant; companion

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scariest; most frightening

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ninja

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random pounding (e.g. on a drum)

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Franken (Germany); Vranken

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don't finish what you're saying; stop what you're saying

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contempt; scorn

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Ure

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claws and fangs; claws and tusks; clutches; devious design; pawn; stooge

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falcon (esp. the peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus)

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splendid; praiseworthy; admirable; well done!; bravo!

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spirit power; magical power

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absconding; taking oneself off; slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)

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Dracula

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hurricane

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slovenly; loose; sluttish; slatternly; untidy; undisciplined

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former (e.g. name); previous; changed; examination; inspection; investigation

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between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis

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dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward)

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folding book; counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; counter for pairs (of curtains); counter for tatami mats

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impudent; cheeky

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seeing; meeting

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cloud; crowd

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to tremble with fear

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taking on a life of its own (of a rumour, etc.); walking by oneself; talking a walk by oneself; walking unaided; being able to walk without help; standing on one's own feet

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senior pupil (of the same master); senior disciple; senior student; senior member

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beet; beat

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weak; feeble

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swelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy

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splendid; praiseworthy; admirable; well done!; bravo!

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moron; idiot; stupid person

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two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; cut from the same cloth

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reckless; (at) random; haphazard; blind; sudden; abrupt

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(exercising) the right to command

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to hit a nerve; to go for the throat; to touch a sore spot

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to roar; to reverberate; to be well-known; to be famous; to palpitate; to throb

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four

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rising (smoke, clouds, etc.); rolling up; billowing up

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(distant) howling; backbiting

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(really) terrible; awful; (very) nasty; (extremely) harsh; severe

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Far East

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weak person; the weak

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crater; pockmark

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joker

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country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)

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coward

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easy; simple; simple (way of thinking, etc.); simple-minded; soft; lax

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