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fighting windmills; tilting at windmills; mimicking a wrestling match by oneself (as a form of street performance, etc.)

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palm sweat

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having in mind; happening to know of; idea

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still more; even more; much more; increased; greater

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source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root

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to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in

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li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

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deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind

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contradiction; inconsistency

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end; tip; extremities; terminal

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to assign; to allot; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate; to assess

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holding hands with fingers interlocked

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grip (of hand); grip strength

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laws of nature; physical laws; physics

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cartilage; nankotsu; (dish of) gristle (usu. of chicken, deep-fried)

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to wear out

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apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal

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yoo-hoo; halloo; hi-de-ho; howdy; hey

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to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)

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civilian clothes; plain clothes; mufti; plainclothes police officer

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irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate

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remarkable; striking; obvious

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to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

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silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling

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answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result

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something or other; anything

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how about ...?; I wonder; I don't know

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meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)

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upper body

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to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance

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to make an appeal; to urge

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favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right

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to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)

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(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence

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adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation

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full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself

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impossible; unlikely; improbable

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flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick

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admirable; commendable; praiseworthy; laudable; brave; heroic

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to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

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to change completely; to switch (to); to shift (to another mode)

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to make trouble; to make waves; to cause discord

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to weave together; to interweave; to intermingle

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bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki

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getting carried away; going too far; overdoing

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inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive

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favourite dish (favorite); favourite food

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food

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sweets (desserts, candy, etc.)

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section (e.g. in a newspaper); column; field (in a form, web page, etc.); blank; handrail; railing

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