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best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent

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to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip

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to make time; to carve out some time (to do something)

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very hungry; starving; fawning; bowing and scraping; giving in; being dented

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to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)

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ambition; aspiration

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both; both sides; both parties

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progress; being under way

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to rack one's brains

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unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene

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to laugh away; to laugh off

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secret intention; ulterior motive; kanji "heart" radical at bottom

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outward appearance; ostensible; public; official

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proficiency; mastery; becoming proficient (in)

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true state; actual condition; reality

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special training; intensive training; crash course

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simple; easy

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fierce (fight, competition, etc.); severe; hot; hard; bitter; keen

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hazing; gruelling training; waistband; woman's undergirdle

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tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training

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bokken; wooden sword

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to place firmly; to hit very hard

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so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much

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to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

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phantasmagoric; protean; shape-shifting; kaleidoscopic; capable of ever-changing appearance

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to follow with one's gaze; to follow with the eyes

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degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.); counter for occurrences; strength (of glasses); glasses prescription; alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume; extent

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considerably; greatly; a lot

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to become better; to improve

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dealing with; coping with

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to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way; to press and cut

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to be elegant; to be graceful; to be refined

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to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet

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one-to-one; one-on-one

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practice; practising; training; study

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having an aptitude (for); having a talent (for)

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(in) one's own way

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to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate

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remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

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full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)

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combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting

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1,000; thousand

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counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

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to decapitate; to take (someone's) head off; to depose; to topple

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in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances

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sense; sensation; feeling; intuition

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hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory

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portion; part; snapshot; glimpse

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fear; dread; fright; willies

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to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate

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