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one's true feelings and one's official stance (which may be at odds); one's real motive and one's stated reason

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embodiment; realization; materialization

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pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course

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byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse

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to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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keyword; key word; clue word; keyword; search term; indexing term

2

special characteristics; peculiarity; distinctiveness

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

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delicate; gentle; fleeting

2

falsehood and truth; fiction and fact

1

to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate

1

characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)

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to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die

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situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances

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transition; change; progress; passing (of time)

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the end

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side (of something, or taking someone's side); part; (watch) case

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to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand

2

happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately

2

side

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testimony; (verbal) evidence

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to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach

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counter for books; volume

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memoir

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originally

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was

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spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures

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thick; deep; kind; cordial; serious (of an illness); abundant

1

morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning

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all; the whole; on the whole; all in all; generally

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as soon as; right after

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eleven o'clock

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under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

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box maker; man who carries a geisha's shamisen

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wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper

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yurt

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nightclothes; nightwear; sleepwear; pyjamas; pajamas; nightgown

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summoning; calling; riding; (high-quality) silk crepe (fabric)

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type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process

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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)

4

hazing; gruelling training; waistband; woman's undergirdle

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through; by way of; after; via

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jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up

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easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all

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openly; publicly; in public; formally; officially; duly

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counter for nights of a stay; overnight stay; lodging

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medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic

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postwar period; period after Second World War

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recollection; retrospection; reflection; reminiscence

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end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring

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