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aha!; yes sir

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interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun

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ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet

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smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

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material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

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opus

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the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly

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to send in

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to come to nothing; to be in vain; to lead nowhere

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on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead

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brand; mark

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shape; appearance; collateral; obverse of an old "zeni" coin

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plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick

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in order to; for the purpose of; must; should

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one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart

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hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member

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to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

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out of control; uncontrollable

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(turned out) all right in the end

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beginning; start

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to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal

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cuckoo

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to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

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other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

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present; gift; to give a present or gift

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to stand watch; to stand guard; to look out; to open (one's eyes) wide

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to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)

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recruit

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distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion

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error; mistake; fault; sin; wrongdoing; offense

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cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

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faculty meeting

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personnel change; personnel shift; reshuffle; (annual) staff reassignment

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notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.); wording; choice of language; phraseology

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to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart

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beginning of the year; early in the New Year

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Takamatsu (city in Kagawa)

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morning sun

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river; stream; River; the ... river

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institution; establishment; facility; home (for elderly, orphans, etc.)

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change (personnel); transfer; reshuffle

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consent; assent; agreement; understanding; comprehension; grasp

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what's the best thing to do?; what to do?

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treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like

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stool (stood on to reach high objects); small stepladder; (fig.) stepping stone

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when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

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evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail

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meaning; called; said

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to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

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to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself

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