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effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving

2

reason; right

1

to replace; to substitute; to shift; to change places

1

one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point

2

to start (something); to start up; to boot (a computer); to launch (a business)

1

objection; refutation; rebuttal; counterargument

3

kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer

2

barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house

2

embarrassed; ashamed

2

reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse

2

to comfort; to console; to amuse

2

imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action

4

weak person; the weak; vulnerable person; disadvantaged person

2

painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

4

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that

2

that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game

2

further; above; anymore

4

to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to

7

deliberately; intentionally; on purpose; purposely

1

funny word or gesture; funny part (in a puppet show, kabuki, etc.); (arch.) a woman's temple hair

1

gold coin

9

to rub; to chafe; to wear out; to become worn; to lose one's innocence; to become sly

1

go that far; to that extent

8

to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

1

to hold one's breath

1

eyesight; vision; visual acuity

1

one's eyes; (pair of) eyes

4

interval; break; rift (in clouds)

1

to rush over; to run up to

4

one class; one set; a pair; a suite; a series

2

short sentence; short piece of writing (e.g. passage, article, composition)

1

initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor

1

to be found (e.g. unknown quantity in an equation); to be calculated

2

right beside; close to; nearby

1

robe

2

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

2

high-speed; rapid; express; highway; freeway; expressway

1

grey; gray; ashen

3

membrane; film

2

to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)

5

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

2

to stand watch; to stand guard; to look out; to open (one's eyes) wide

1

quick work; (clever) feat

1

evidence; proof; witness

1

to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something

7

half step; half a step

1

to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone

1

blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space

1

(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament

2

(musical) conductor; commander; leader; director

1