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rapids

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heave-ho!; heave!

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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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(courteous) invitation; call

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low price

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beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather

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scariest; most frightening

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leadership competition; power struggle

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Ayano

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lack of innovation; stupidity

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just (applies to set number of items, instances, etc.)

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(one) leaf; (one) petal; piece (of paper); flake (of snow)

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(something) stopper (e.g. geridome is medicine for diarrhea)

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race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku

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Ure

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Ouch!

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easy

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fine play

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to play a trick on; to cheat; to deceive; to dupe

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last day of the month

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hurricane

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heave-ho!; heave!

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toe; toe (of a golf club)

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manipulation; puppet

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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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blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature

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seeing; meeting

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cloud; crowd

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red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

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phantasmagoric; protean; shape-shifting; kaleidoscopic; capable of ever-changing appearance

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they

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darling

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palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)

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unheard-of; unprecedented

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swelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy

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greeting; a fine thing to say

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good job

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large-scale operation; large-scale campaign; major mission

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

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force (bulldoze) one's way through

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bet; wager; stake; gamble

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to blow upon; to breathe on; to pick (a fight); to force (unreasonable terms); to exaggerate; to overcharge

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serious damage; drubbing

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to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

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ouch

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glitter; glimmer; sparkle; twinkle

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to force (someone) to take part; to take along unwillingly

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trumpet; horn; bugle

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