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advanced age; old age

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making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)

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complete recovery; healing

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after a while; a little while later; shortly afterward

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reputation; respectability

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embodiment; manifestation; materialization; materialisation; expression; indication

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uncommon; extraordinary (in relation to human characteristics)

2

modern times; the modern age; this day and age

3

foundation stone; cornerstone

1

to say goodbye; to bid farewell

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till just now

2

to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive

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so to speak

2

former boyfriend; ex-boyfriend

2

illicit love

2

carefully; with caution

1

standing at attention; standing stiffly upright

1

feeling of happiness; sense of well-being; euphoria

1

cannot help (laughing, feeling sympathy, etc.); cannot hold back (tears, anger, etc.); cannot suppress

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at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

1

reporter

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to remove; to get rid of; to clear away; to tear down

1

yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so

2

to eagerly look forward to

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launch (of a rocket, satellite, etc.); lift-off; end (of a project, theatrical run, etc.); close; party to celebrate the successful completion of a project (run of performances, etc.); wrap party

2

to glance at; to glimpse

3

1,000,000; one million; million; many

2

matter for the future; something that is a long way off; something that is not going to happen anytime soon

2

bad feeling; cares; ill feeling; grudge; sense of discomfort; discontent

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(traditional) festival music

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reaffirmation; reconfirmation; revalidation

1

this piece; this work

1

circumference; girth; tour; pilgrimage; circulation (e.g. of blood)

2

to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to

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to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate

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ennui; languishing; feeling of exhaustion; lassitude; lethargy

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Hachikō; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)

4

to moisten; to wet; to profit; to enrich; to benefit

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to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint

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area around the Hachikō statue at Shibuya Station in Tokyo (popular meeting point)

2

material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

3

diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization

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to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

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(complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation

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to set (someone) up (in a high position); to kick upstairs; to hold sacred; to worship; to flatter

1

collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval

4

to be fulfilled; to be satisfied

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to look down on (someone); to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at

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calm (at sea); lull

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villain; baddie; the villain's part

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