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to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.

3

appeal; complaint

1

beetle

6

paper silhouette cutout; paper knife

7

when it becomes; when it comes to

16

to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

1

to intend; to be sure that

1

tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe

1

similar

7

rare; strange; odd; peculiar

1

(on) land; ground; shore; track-and-field events

1

to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest

7

fricative; fricative consonant

1

ōzeki (second highest rank in sumo)

5

soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction

1

Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)

1

to fly in the air

3

sailfin sandfish (Arctoscopus japonicus); Japanese sandfish

1

to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

4

to begin a new chapter

1

common name; popular name; secular name; bad reputation

1

bombardier beetle (esp. species Pheropsophus jessoensis); stink bug

2

real name

2

Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle)

2

pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously

2

to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain

1

buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end

4

stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled

7

counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

1

weasel (esp. the Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi); mustelid (any other member of the weasel family, incl. badgers, martens, minks, ferrets, otters, polecats, stoats, skunks, etc.)

1

skunk (animal); skunk (i.e. preventing someone from scoring entirely)

1

schoolyard; playground; school grounds; campus

1

experience

7

how many times?

2

another thing; other things; another man's property

4

wise; clever; smart

5

psocid (any insect of order Psocoptera, which includes booklice)

1

high; high school

2

hills and fields; hill and dale

4

seven wonders (of a particular area); total mystery; enigma; conundrum

1

to count; to enumerate

1

shoji (paper sliding door)

4

late autumn (fall); (arch.) ninth month of the lunar calendar

1

faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre

1

miserable; wretched; lonely; dreary; shabby; comfortless

1

to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to

2

tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery

1

to make tea (matcha); to perform the tea ceremony

1

pocket watch

1

tick-tock; tick-tack; sound of clock

1