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bright; intelligent; clever; smart

1

competition rate; success rate; ratio of successful (applicants) to total applicants

1

double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n

3

barrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock

2

bright; intelligent

1

to reach; to get to; to arrive at

5

small private school (esp. for cramming); private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

1

lecturer

1

to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

4

quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion

3

average

1

age; years

2

pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of

1

pale; pallid; bluish-white

1

(one's parents') home

3

star (usu. not including the Sun); planet (usu. not including Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); star (actor, player, etc.); small dot; spot; star point (in go)

8

eldest brother

2

to open a path

1

incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person

2

flight; running away; absconding; elopement

2

older brother; elder brother

8

thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words

1

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

5

talk; conversation; dialogue

1

erotomania; sexual obsession; sexual maniac

1

far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention

3

learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics

3

younger brother; little brother; brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) apprentice

1

to irritate; to grate on one's nerves; to aggravate; to be galling; to be invidious

1

even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing

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even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...

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annoying; provoking

1

to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of

1

to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor

7

to be needed; to be wanted

1

older brother

2

(not) even once; (not) ever

10

unfaithfulness; infidelity; unchastity

2

retort; back talk; backchat

1

fair and square; open and aboveboard

3

quarrel between brothers

2

not care; not caring

1

daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)

2

honorary position

2

condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite

4

what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?

1

emphasis-adding particle

5

mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together

5

to make eye contact

3

glory

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