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profiting while others fight

3

indescribable; having no way to express

3

racing (an engine); idling (an engine); going in circles (esp. argument, discussion, etc.); spinning one's wheels

1

outward appearance; apparent

2

shameless; brazen and unscrupulous

3

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards

3

all; everyone; everybody

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from time immemorial; ancient; time-honoured; time-honored

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card game

1

today; this day

1

field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness

3

Kobato

11

spine (of book); binding (of book)

1

shoulder length hair

1

lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily

1

tips of one's hair; hair ends

1

to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)

1

hair elastic; hair tie; hair band; rubber band

1

decoration; ornament; trimmings

2

skull and crossbones

1

affirmative

1

early; quickly; promptly

1

derailment; digression; deviation

2

fuzzy

1

bozu mekuri; bonze turnup; card game played with a hyakunin isshu deck

2

millstone; mortar

1

distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)

1

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

1

deck (e.g. ship, tape, cassette, observation, train vestibule)

1

Saigyouhoushi

1

what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak

3

assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb

4

adviser; advisor; consultant

6

board games, card games etc. (played without a computer)

1

research society; study class (e.g. religious); seminar (e.g. presentation of research)

1

to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for

1

slowly and quietly; smoothly

2

look of amazement; looking dumbfounded

3

properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly

2

sense of justice

2

leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)

1

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1

allophone; strange noise

2

to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid

3

light brown; tawny

1

pill; lozenge; tablet

5

not serious; frivolous; insincere; unsteady

1

executive secretary; coordinator; organizer; person in charge of making arrangements

3

as always; as ever; though it's always the case

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to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped

2