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to be clear; to be distinct; to be skillful; to be skilful; to be well-executed; to get cold

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personality; individuality; TV personality; celebrity

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to boil; to seethe; to roil (e.g. waterfall, torrent); to foam; to well up (of emotions); to overflow (e.g. fighting spirit)

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to grow restive; to begin to act violently

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part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty

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to aim at

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having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism

2

grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

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regularly; promptly; sound of clashing swords; Manchu queue; padded sleeveless kimono jacket; Japanese vest (often for children)

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small talk; chat; gossip

2

assuming that ...; supposing that ...

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whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself

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absurd; nonsensical; preposterous

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category

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dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly

3

murder; killing; murderer

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textbook; coursebook; schoolbook

1

writing implement; writing tool

1

kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like

1

commuting to school; school commute

1

to throw away

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excess; surplus; superabundance

1

cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

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simultaneously striking one another (in kendo, etc.); draw; tie

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both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

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poor plan

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thoughtlessly; rashly; unwisely; halfway; half-done; incomplete

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misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess

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reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre

1

valid; effective; yuko (judo)

1

unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom

2

to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat

2

to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive about; to be fixated on; to obstruct; to hinder

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selection; choice; option

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to narrow; to contract

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to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)

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to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out

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to mistake someone for someone else; to misread; to misjudge

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to feel like it; to get to think that way; to become so minded

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certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

2

sense of accomplishment

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test; trial; probation; ordeal; tribulation

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beyond that point; after that

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the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come

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optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion

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judgment; judgement; discernment

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to chip; to nick; to break; to lack

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to fight against; to oppose; to face

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victory; triumph; conquest; success; win

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wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice

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