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famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

2

invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)

1

to give thought to; to bear in mind; to keep in mind

1

stockpile; reserves; storing; stocking up; laying in (supplies)

1

to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service

4

poverty

1

to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)

6

I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality

1

claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

3

official recognition; authorization; authorisation; licence; license; accreditation

2

naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord

1

modern man; modern person; modernist

1

self; the ego

2

private right

1

privacy

2

dimension; perspective; point of reference; level (of something)

2

to make a distinction; to differ; to be different

1

already; too late

4

modern

9

simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light

8

theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse

2

emperor's secret orders

2

logic; logical

5

(some) more; even more; longer; further

2

direct; frank; straightforward; decisive; prompt

1

revelation; manifestation; appearance; expression (e.g. in molecular biology; protein expression or gene expression)

1

such; like that; that sort of; very

1

individualism; egoism; selfishness

2

collectivism (giving priority to a group rather than any individual member)

2

coarse; rough; crude

1

uncertainty; inaccuracy; incorrectness

1

binomial; binary; dyadic

1

to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject

1

phenotype

1

self-consciousness

1

to pick up and rescue

1

quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money

3

taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

3

supple; flexible; elastic; graceful; elegant; refined

1

respect; honour; honor

3

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

2

one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look

3

defile; narrow path; bottleneck; impasse

1

to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

1

once more

1

gazing at (in wonderment)

1

probably isn't (doesn't, won't, etc.); don't (doesn't) intend to; intend not to; must not; (when used in an imperative sentence) don't

8

Western food; Western-style food

5

arrival; coming (e.g. something awaited); advent

2

Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

1