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phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

2

to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

1

naughty; mischievous; rascal; naughty kid; delinquency; misconduct

1

(someone else's) parents; both parents

3

shy; bashful; timid; reserved

1

provision of lunch (e.g. at office, school, etc.); providing a meal; lunch service

3

to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want

5

meal (e.g. lunch, dinner); diet

1

to move (something) to another location; to change the position of; to rearrange; to replace; to exchange; to switch

1

whether (or not); if

1

stew (esp. Japanese cream stew)

1

pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black

1

great; excellent; distinguished; important; awful; terrible

1

father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he

7

boarding; lodging; board and lodging; boarding house; lodging house; lodgings

2

judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of

1

to have sparkling eyes; to have shining eyes; to have a gleam in one's eyes

1

something (or other)

1

children's book

1

(school) class

1

Les Miserables (novel by Victor Hugo)

1

digest; summary; abridgment

1

edition; version; plate; block; counter for editions of a publication

1

Cosette

1

full version; complete version; unabridged edition

1

to be scheduled to (do); to be expected to (do)

1

green grass; young (fresh) grass

1

Christmas

1

treat (esp. food and drink); entertainment; treating someone (to a meal); gorgeous dinner; feast; excellent food

1

to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)

3

to reread; to read again

3

My Father's Dragon

1

springy (texture); doughy; elastic

2

to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)

1

dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently; gloomily

2

timid; fainthearted

3

to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time

1

to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

2

moonlit night

2

horned owl (any owl with horn-like ear tufts)

2

grandfather; male senior-citizen

2

cancer

1

space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being

1

murrelet (esp. the ancient murrelet, Synthliboramphus antiquus); roundbelly cowfish (Lactoria diaphana)

1

national language; Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan); one's native language; mother tongue; native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords and Chinese-derived words)

5

book report

1

subject; theme; homework; assignment; problem (that needs solving); task

1

title

2

owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)

1

to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

1