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lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk

1

to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)

1

promptly

1

denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation

1

to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)

4

bookshelf

2

to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent

1

to pull out; to take out; to lead out (e.g. a horse from a stable); to summon (e.g. to court); to withdraw (money); to draw

2

contract; compact; agreement

1

taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story

1

towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)

2

character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

4

thank you; thanks

1

such; like that; that sort of; very

4

nameless; unnamed; obscure; unknown; causeless; unjustifiable

1

symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

3

(one's) life

3

youth; springtime of life; adolescent

1

diary; journal

1

was

2

exception

1

full name

1

to finish

1

vertical line; bar line (e.g. in music)

1

alphabet

2

row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows

1

what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?

2

certificate of residence

2

family register; census

2

document; official papers

1

police; police officer; police station

2

protocol; written evidence; record (investigation, interrogation, etc.); preliminary memo; charge sheet

1

to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

1

value; worth; merit

2

bag; satchel; briefcase; basket

2

writing materials

1

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

1

victim

1

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

3

three years

1

rent

1

eight; 8

1

500; five hundred; many

4

yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle

4

apartment building; apartment block; apartment house; apartment

2

second floor; upstairs

2

lecture

2

to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep

3

express home delivery service; express home delivery parcel (box, etc.)

2

arrival

2