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to control; to command; to get the better of

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consoling the spirits of the dead

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everlasting fortune in battle; continued luck in war

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3000; three thousand; many

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paradise

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to compete; to vie; to make fight against another (person, animal); to pit against; to debate; to argue

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growing late; latening

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angry face (countenance)

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to have a hard time of it

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lending and borrowing

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to shake each other's hands; to shake hands with each other

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throat; important part; vital area

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to commit suicide; to end one's life; (lit.) to choose death

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rustling of clothes

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in a fluster; in a panic

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stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)

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bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

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official recognition; official approval; certification; authorization; authorisation

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stark naked

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ardent; passionate; vehement

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to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side by side; to make (someone) get married; to get (someone) hitched

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firmly; solidly; heartily

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boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening

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straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt

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lustful beast; lascivious monster

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to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract

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upper jaw; palate

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to lick all over; to run one's tongue over

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numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles

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an ascetic existence; (leading) a continent life; abstinence

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call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)

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doesn't even exist

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to be cut out for (e.g. a job); to be suited (to)

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from (this, here, etc.); since (this)

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fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

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to diminish (dampen) the spirit

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ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

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to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over

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wherein; therein; thereinto

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perfect score; full marks; perfection; grading out of a hundred; grading on a scale of 0 to 100

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eccentric; crank; weirdo; oddball

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gold ring

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How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

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celebration

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aimlessly; by chance; accidentally; casually; suddenly; unexpectedly

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only; just; (ever) since; after; continuously; remaining (in a particular state)

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to negotiate; to settle a matter; to arrange

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to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)

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(points of) difference

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steadily; unflaggingly; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking

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