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Happy New Year

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tea party; get-together; tea ceremony

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tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea; hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

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to put up one's hair

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rock

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(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags

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to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again

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you're welcome; don't mention it; not at all; my pleasure

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photochemistry

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camouflage; disguise

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800; eight hundred; multitude; large number

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fashion model

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tea ceremony; chanoyu

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same kind (race); homogeneousness

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semi-formal kimono for women; visiting (gala) dress

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obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum

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art gallery; art museum

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entrance

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peerless; unique; unparalleled; unchallenged

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present post; current office; (an) incumbent

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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impoliteness; carelessness; misconduct; clumsiness

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pessimistic; gloomy

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when it comes to ...; concerning; where ... are concerned

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unusual; unwonted; uncharacteristic

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(cow's) milk

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(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course

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on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity

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on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture

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manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making

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vote; ballot; label; ticket; tag

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ballot; vote

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to let out a cry; to shout

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vocalization; vocalisation

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dull; slow; stupid; dull-brained

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India-ink painting

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inside pocket

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ball-point pen

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violence; force

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type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks; The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching

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fire calamity

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to finish writing

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to sit; to squat; to be implicated

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easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

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I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt

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to rhyme (with)

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to rampage; to run wild; to go berserk; to be violent (waves, wind, etc.); to be rough

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grassy field; grassland; meadow; grass-covered plain; savannah; prairie

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the other world; the next world; the world beyond; world after death

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state (of mind); mental state; field (of activity); one's lot; circumstance; place

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