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naughty child; unruly child

1

Akashi

1

to have a trade; to have a vocation

1

veranda with bamboo flooring

1

Shouseki

2

Japanese film; Japanese painting

2

Alteil

1

romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance

5

wedge-shaped; cuneate; cuneiform

1

small; little

1

to brace oneself; to keep one's spirits up; to keep one's composure; to pull oneself together; to stay strong

1

Spellman; Spelman

2

low-risk, low-return

1

to be struck by a chance blow; to be embroiled in; to be caught up in; to be dragged into

1

half-sibling (by a different father); uterine sibling; maternal half-sibling; half-brother; half-sister

1

Orte

1

the three most important cities (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)

1

gesture; charades (game)

1

Kurisuchi-nu

1

to pick something out (nose, hole, etc.); to pry (into people's private affairs)

1

description of services offered; service content

2

number of households

1

pet store

2

any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

5

danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; (lit.) once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object)

1

executioner

13

machete

1

downgrading; demotion; degradation; lowering of position (or rank, etc.)

2

within eyeshot; within sight; in view

1

hollow-point bullet

1

listening (esp. in foreign language education); listening comprehension; (public) hearing

1

pa'u skirt; pau skirt

1

things on hand; things in stock; money on hand; money in one's wallet; on hand; in stock

1

early-morning attack

1

Sckell

29

newbie

2

to gag someone

1

low-risk

1

ceremony to celebrate the completion of a building; inauguration ceremony

1

it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all

1

neck (region)

1

tailspin; spin; drilling; boring

1

temporary employment agency; personnel placement agency; staffing agency; temp agency; temping agency

1

pinning someone on the floor by lying on them; banging on the floor (e.g. to quieten one's neighbor)

1

stubbornness; pigheaded person; miser

1

to make a bold speech; to make a bold statement

1

Auber; Aubert

1

mixing and matching (clothes, accessories, etc.); wearing of an item of clothing in many different combinations

1

snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants

2

giving something a try because it will not do any harm

1