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acquaintance

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language

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foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury

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bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

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to memorize; to fix in memory; to master

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to get entangled; to get tangled; to have poor control over (one's tongue, feet, etc.); to trip over; to become complicated

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thread; yarn; string

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to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for

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to retighten

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evening; evening hour

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pull; patronage; tug; discount

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evening

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window-sill; window-ledge

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to sit (down)

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big river

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white sail

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freighter; lighter

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to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

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katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum); Japanese Judas tree

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disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)

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material; material properties; quality of material; quality of wood; quality of lumber

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to compare unfavorably (unfavourably, poorly) with; to be not so good as

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go (board game)

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there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

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to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate

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to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce

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these

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puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

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to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care

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to assume the air of ...; to behave like ...; to put on airs; to be self-important

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something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

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to gather

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not busy; unengaged; being free; leisure

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to undo; to untie; to unfasten; to unlace; to unravel; to loosen

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anything; whatever; whatever one likes

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to throw oneself (into an activity)

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-less; lacking; non-existing

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every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)

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head (of a Japanese pipe, i.e. the bowl and shank); neck; head

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smoke; fumes

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uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently

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-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command

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careless; thoughtless; hasty; rash

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that well-known ...

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only recently; just of late

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one year ago

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approximately the same

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to leave one's seat; to temporarily excuse oneself (from a meeting, etc.); to step outside; to be away (from one's desk, etc.)

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to state; to express; to mention

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