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painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

2

graduation ceremony; commencement

2

graduation certificate; diploma; testamur

1

report card

1

willowy; graceful

1

to become spring-like; to show signs of spring

1

national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

1

beard (esp. on the chin); goatee

1

for the first time in one's life

2

crybaby; blubberer

1

feminine; womanly; female

1

quiet; still; calm

1

to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

2

chilly; unpleasantly cold

1

to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in

1

blanket

1

to flow into; to pour into; to stream into

1

sentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish

1

April; fourth month in the lunar calendar

1

the preceding visitor

1

in preparation; (shop) not yet open for business

1

mouth of river; estuary

34

Mutsumi

4

expressing one's mind; speaking out

1

stage of ennui (esp. in one's married life); period of lassitude; lethargic period; rut

1

(around the) neck; nape; collar (at the front)

2

easily bored; quick to lose interest; fickle; capricious

2

extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness

4

emphasis-adding particle

1

bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body

3

anxiously; impatiently; worriedly; fretting; getting worked up

3

dramatic decrease; sharp drop; sudden fall

1

circulation; rotation; cycle; loop

1

somewhat; to some extent; to some degree; some; part; portion

1

to flush out (game, etc.); to drive (animals); to beat; to urge; to spur on; to push on

1

to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)

1

some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous

1

Lake Town (Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture)

3

dark clouds gather; threatening signs emerge; trouble is afoot

1

to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

2

to choke; to have trouble breathing

2

pit of the stomach; solar plexus; place where water falls

1

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet

1

much; remarkably; not at all (with neg. verb); quickly and vigorously; unhesitatingly

1

discomfort

1

mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity

1

inquiry into; enquiry into; prying (into); investigation; search; exploration

3

restraint; restriction; fetters; binding; confinement with rope

1

doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion

2

weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73

1