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unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette

6

study; diligence; discount; reduction

24

your countenance (his ..., her ..., etc.)

1

to bow; to worship; to receive; to see

1

study room

1

single cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell

4

realistic; pragmatic

14

prison

1

bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase

4

Rita Hayworth

2

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

24

actress; female actor

1

iron grill; iron grille; iron lattice; prison

3

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

8

to get slightly dirty (all over)

3

concrete

1

textbook; manual

6

reading-book; reader; guidebook; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)

2

primer; manual; introductory book

1

using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately

3

things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy; (lit.) the wholesaler won't sell it like that

1

mechanism; mechanics; machines; mechanic

12

war movie

1

drum (e.g. oil, gasoline); metal barrel

3

robotics; robot

32

chafing; grinding (e.g. teeth); binding tightly; pulling tight (e.g. a bow); rotating quickly; hurting sharply

6

composition; synthesis; composite photo; (function) composition

15

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

3

to use excessively; to use too much; to spend too much; to overwork someone

2

jellied fish or meat broth

1

abdomen

5

staged wedding photographs; photo-only wedding; having wedding photography taken without holding an actual wedding; picture marriage; mail-order marriage

2

internal (e.g. disk); built-in; equipped (with)

7

syringe; hypodermic needle; injector

4

liquid medicine

1

filling (up); replenishing; filling in (tooth); loading (gun with ammunition, camera with film, etc.); packing; plugging

2

fatigue; weariness; exhaustion; tiredness

28

moth

3

rook

2

to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink

2

decision; vote

9

feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; (arch.) shrinking back in fear

4

to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

1

cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

3

100,000,000; one hundred million

1

Mount Olympus

1

alchemy; way of making money; moneymaker; money-spinner

1

rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match

5

dignity; quality; grace; panache; level

3

hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe

2