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nape of the neck

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to get lost; to become lost; to go astray

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slave; servant; slavery

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to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)

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cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss

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turtle scooping (festival game)

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to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough

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ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics

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to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade

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household economy; family finances

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precarious situation; precarious state

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contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game

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calculating; mercenary; selfish; self-interested

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slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery

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to come back

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to have a catch; to have an ulterior motive; to be more (to something)

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festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

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(with a) mindset as if one were playing a video game; thinking of (treating) something as though it were a game

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unit price; unit cost

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yellow-green; pea green

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standing on tiptoes

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crowd; throng

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character written by brush; brush-stroke character

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hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.)

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boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque

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plywood

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frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

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to carve into; to cut into; to engrave into; to inscribe

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toothbrush

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hard struggle; strenuous effort

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(hand) towel

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physique; bodily build

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audacious; daring; bold; throaty (voice); rough; deep

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imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry

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spice

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from here; from this place

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booing

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distortion (often used for caricature in manga, etc.); deformation

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home base; home plate

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lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant

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watering can; watering pot; sprinkling can

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300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

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500; five hundred; many

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this for sure; certainly is

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die cutting; cutting with a cutter; shaping with a mold; cookie cutter

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to carve; to engrave; to sculpt; to tattoo

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crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.); crunchy; grumpily; touchily; scratching

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to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out

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presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in

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prize money; monetary award; reward

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