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touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz); making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)

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charming; fascinating; attractive

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lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

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fiance; fiancee

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good time to sell

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disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful

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disappointment; despair

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elegance; refinement; grace; aroma

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to make a fist; to clench one's fist

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to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

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kindness; favor; favour

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to gain time; to play for time; to buy time

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to yield to temptation; to succumb

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to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)

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a bit more; a bit longer

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massage

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skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

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to be worth it; to pay

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detective

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horseback riding; sitting astride; straddling

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since some time or another; since who-knows-when

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mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both

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to do together

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to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show

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picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

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the former

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mutual; reciprocal

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chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox

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to sit (down)

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complex; inferiority complex; complex (of buildings, facilities, etc.)

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measuring by feel; adjusting by feel; doing by feel; adapting to the situation (one's strength, strictness, etc.); making allowances; using discretion

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suffix for familiar person

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terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

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lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily

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dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly

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to turn over a new leaf; to mend one's ways; to reform

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master; Your lordship; My lord; husband

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to catch one's attention

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thread; yarn; string

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(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth

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question of degree

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mainly; chiefly; primarily; for the most part

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popularity; favour; defense; defence; agreement; receiver of technique (e.g. in martial arts)

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preparedness; readiness; mental attitude; frame of mind

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training for homemaking; training in homemaking arts; domestic training

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knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

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severe; strict; tough; hard

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upper half of the body; upper body

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low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

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mainly; primarily

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