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to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride

3

tsukemono; Japanese pickled vegetables

2

approximately the same

1

world; society; people; the public

3

to look coldly at; to turn a cold shoulder

1

apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

1

Japan

1

antipathy; prejudice

1

race (of people); type of person

1

irritating; irritated; frustrating; vexing; (feeling things are) not quick enough; (feeling) too slow-going

3

hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible

1

which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who

1

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

4

not a chance; not likely; oh no; yuck; fault; defect

2

working adult; full-fledged member of society

1

important; momentous; essential; principal; major

1

assembly; aggregation

1

exclusion

1

foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse

1

towards; against; regarding; in contrast with

1

pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)

2

attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation

1

nature; property; disposition

1

to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

2

being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

1

grasp; catch; understanding

1

to be able to manage somehow or another

1

thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan

4

to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out

1

to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done

5

self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)

3

this world; this life; world of the living

1

all one's wisdom; (lit.) bag (full) of wisdom; the brains (of a group); the smart one; fount of wisdom

1

participation; joining; entry; adherence

17

how about ...?; I wonder; I don't know

2

across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for

3

proposal; proposition; suggestion

5

lying face down; lying on one's face; placing upside down; placing face down

1

to lie down; to throw oneself down

1

to telephone; to make a phone call

1

cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

3

to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous

1

method; process; manner; way; means; technique

2

seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause

2

people

1

to gather; to collect; to assemble

13

pronunciation; production of sound

3

offline meeting (face-to-face meeting by people who normally interact online)

38

horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language

2