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book; volume

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one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

2

deplorable; regrettable; disappointing; vexing; unfortunate

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to have an interest (in)

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to mimic; to imitate

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spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

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with energy (of parties and such); enthusiastically; going all out

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to shine; to glitter; to sparkle

3

edge (of a river, woods, etc.); shoulder (of a road); rim; brim; fabric border (of a tatami mat, etc.); edging

3

lecturer; rhetorician; orator; narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter

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to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

4

tranquility; tranquillity; calmness; serenity; quietness

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to coagulate; to curdle; to be fanatical; to be obsessed with; to stiffen; to become stiff

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to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled

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to disentangle; to untangle; to unravel; to relax; to soften; to relieve (e.g. stress, tension)

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instead; but (on the other hand)

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height; elevated place

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lantern (esp. handheld oil lamp); hurricane lamp

2

to slip down; to slide down; to glide down

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sound of wind rustling through a crack; wheezing

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selfishness; self-interest

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to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow

1

to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract

1

evil spirits of rivers and mountains

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to meet; to assemble; to congregate

1

centre; center; pivot; central nervous system

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unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty

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to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch

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to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince

1

to shake; to waver; to tremble

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funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd

1

successful execution; accomplishment; completion; fulfillment; carrying through

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knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning

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mica; isinglass

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to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to

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unable to sleep well

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to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one

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gap

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to boil strongly; to be excited

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fires set off in early spring to burn off dead grass; bush fire; field fire; grass fire

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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

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lead colour; lead color

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beam; light ray

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brown; tanned

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describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure

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to push aside; to brush or thrust aside; to remove; to get rid of

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joints; points (of a speech)

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cracking sound (e.g. cracking one's knuckles); crunching sound

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I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one

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tensely; tightly; erectly; intuitively; instinctively; with a burst

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