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divine beast

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fair and square; open and aboveboard; bold and forthright

3

single combat; duel; one-on-one fight

2

victory or defeat; match; contest; game

4

easy; easygoing; carefree; happy-go-lucky; optimistic; leisurely

1

to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate

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one-to-one; one-on-one

2

fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest

2

hey; hold on; come on

2

monster

1

to let out a cry; to break forth

1

chance (of success); odds

3

historical document; archives; old manuscript; pre-Meiji era document addressed to someone in particular

1

to think up; to think out; to knit (a pattern into a sweater, etc.); to start knitting

1

veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced

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tactician; strategist

2

Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist; 544?-496 BCE); The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu; ca. 5th century BCE); Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)

2

children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants

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The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu; ca. 5th century BCE)

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private life

3

practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis

5

usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally

2

shade of a rock

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to leave behind

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breath; breathing; bracelet

1

movement (of one's body); moving about; stirring; acting freely; doing as one pleases

2

to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)

1

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1

roar; cry (esp. of triumph); battle cry; screech (of a bird); scream; yawp

3

pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)

1

famous; well-known

2

undefeated

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strategist

1

even (e.g. even a child)

4

good policy; wise policy; best plan

1

defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)

4

strategy; tactics

1

everyday; always; at all times; frequently

2

interior of the body

1

potential; latent faculties; potential capacities

1

gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; wide open; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); gobbling up

1

notches; serration; indentation; notched; serrated; jagged

3

impressiveness; impact; force; intensity; presence; appeal

1

fast approach; quick intimacy

1

nutrition; nourishment

1

to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased

2

to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)

2

nutritional value; food value

1

ingredient; component; composition

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if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

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