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to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing

2

reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)

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scribble; scrawl

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to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity

2

to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain

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slate; stone slab

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ignoring; bypassing; doing something without consultation; going over someone's head

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to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly

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it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but

2

red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors); two teams; two groups; Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)

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double; twice (as much); twofold

3

to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder

2

one-by-one; separately; in detail

2

to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

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to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued

1

messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things

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random; random sampling

3

to rearrange; to reorder; to move around; to sort; to collate

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storehouse; warehouse; godown

2

(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season

1

disguise; masquerade

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look!; there!; here!; that is

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looking; viewing; (please) try (to)

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to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

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labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble

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carrying in (esp. heavy objects, artwork, furniture); bringing in; taking in

2

(suffering) damage; injury; harm

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stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition

5

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

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stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs

2

to talk oneself hoarse; to shout oneself hoarse

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unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen

3

plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation

4

to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with

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to (suddenly) get into a specific mood; (lit.) to get switched on

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apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock

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mike; mic; microphone

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to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

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injured person; wounded person; casualty

1

collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval

4

to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics

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actual state (of things); real state; live; on-the-scene; reporting live; live coverage

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temporary; provisional; to do something temporarily (esp. build temporary facilities); to do something provisionally

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to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

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count; counting; count of balls and strikes; count (after a knock-down in boxing); count (of radioactivity)

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vitamin

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tiredness; fatigue

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corpulence; fatness; obesity

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blood

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with a rustling sound; rippling (of a stream, etc.); murmuring; slurping down (ochazuke); quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter); with ease

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