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Platoon

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second place

4

prize for perfect attendance

1

cause (grounds) for concern (anxiety); reason for uneasiness

3

fine quality

1

to dry up; to shrivel (up); to go (completely) dry; to wither (of talents, feelings, etc.); to become desiccated (e.g. of ideas)

5

parasol (esp. one carried in the hand); sunshade

1

honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love

1

soccer club (at a school); football club

1

dark clouds; threatening signs; ominous indications

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attendance; presence and absence; attendance and non-attendance

1

what day?; what day of the week?

1

to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)

3

English teacher

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younger; junior

3

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

1

personal connections

1

long hair (usu. of a man)

1

direction; trend; directionality; directivity; goal; aim

7

incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical

2

Darkness

1

sowing beans (or pulses, etc.); scattering parched beans (to drive out evil spirits)

1

midnight

1

to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

3

command; lead; generalship; leadership

1

armed forces; military; troops

3

Ragnarök; Ragnarok

1

tiger pattern; striped (like a tiger)

1

straw skirt; grass skirt; traditionally worn by hunters and fishermen

1

homage

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Yakushimaru Hiroko (1964.6-)

1

one or two; a few; small number

3

to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)

2

to peel off; to come off; to flake off; to fade; to discolor; to discolour

1

namahage; folklore demon of the Oga Peninsula (people dress up as them on New Year's Eve to admonish children)

6

steaming

2

unpasteurized beer

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abbreviation; acronym

1

legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small

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false charge; false accusation; misrepresentation

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AD; Anno Domini

1

rice plant (Oryza sativa)

1

jail; gaol; jailhouse

5

cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)

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cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)

1

indirectly

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suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up

2

peashooter

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beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

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rapid firing; continuous firing; firing in quick succession

2