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leveling up; raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level

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naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata

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low-ranking ninja

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success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

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pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously

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scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding

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compensating; making up for; supplementation

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to make a profit

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as a matter of fact; to tell the truth

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gift; premium; prize (lottery drawing, pachinko, etc.); party favor (favour)

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lately; recently

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(kinds of) meat

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quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult

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request

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effect; result; worth; use; avail

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likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences

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no matter what; whatever happens; in any situation; rain or shine

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to feel awkward; to feel ashamed; to feel inferior; to feel shy (about doing something)

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eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine

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bargain; good buy; budget

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corner; bend; segment (within a radio or TV program); session; area; department

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to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry

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type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

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season (e.g. fruit, fish); in vogue; popular; fresh

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ginger (Zingiber officinale)

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soy sauce; shoyu

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miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling

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ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides

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chicken meat

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food cooked by steaming

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cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless

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accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation

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foreign country

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deeply; keenly; severely; intently; carefully; closely

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child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

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nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

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moth

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eccentric; crank; oddball

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to get involved or entangled in; to get mixed up in; to have something to do with; to have dealings with

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purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce

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cuttlefish; squid

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coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins

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unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!

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to pickpocket; to steal

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Arima

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direct from the farm; farm-fresh

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ant

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in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start

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check mark; tick mark

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North Pole; the Arctic

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