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(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown

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choosing; selecting; deciding (on)

4

our country; our land; one's own country

1

traditional; customary; conventional

1

festival; feast; carnival; matsuri

4

tradition; convention

1

event; function

2

this sort of; this type of

2

unmarried; not yet married

1

men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders

3

to tie (to); to fasten; to attach; to connect (one thing with another); to link; to bring together

2

bachelorhood; spinsterhood; celibacy; living apart from one's family; living alone; person who lives alone

2

each; (arch.) you (plural)

1

mark; guide; purpose; aim; sight (on a firearm)

4

man; male; masculine gender

4

to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned

4

happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

1

this is why; that is the reason why; it is the case that; so; thus; with that

1

to conceal; to hide

1

to melt; to liquefy; to dissolve (in a liquid); to be soluble (in); to be used up (of money or time); to be wasted

2

one's mind; one's heart; one's intention

2

next year

1

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

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to make merry; to be festive

2

participation; joining; entry

5

with a friendly grin; smilingly

1

doing as one is told; yes-man

1

poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby

1

to accompany; to follow; to keep up with

1

just now; a little while back; a short time ago

1

to run down (stairs, etc.)

3

to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away

1

which; what (way)

2

to pluck; to pick; to nip off

4

to assemble everything together; to do something as a group

1

to mow; to reap; to harvest; to eradicate; to root out (e.g. evil); to remove

1

about this time; about now

2

flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion

1

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

2

scarlet sage (Salvia splendens); red salvia

8

pocket

4

brooch

2

pin (e.g. hairpin, safety pin); (bowling) pin; pin; flagstick; (a) one (on dice or Japanese playing cards); first; top

2

calyx; corolla

2

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

1

basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

3

to happen to pass by

1

one by one; one each; one at a time

1

spike

1

nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

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