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hardships of poverty; serious poverty

1

desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application

13

to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to fulfill (conditions); to meet (requirements)

8

(social) position; status

5

another person; others

5

to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce

3

to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself

6

opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery

2

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

2

emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect

1

mission; errand; task; duty; obligation

3

suddenly; at once; considerably; very much; firmly; with an effort

2

endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint

5

interchange; service interchange

2

rearview mirror

2

to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort

9

to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper; to clench one's teeth; to grit one's teeth

1

comfortable; pleasant

1

nothing but; nothing more than; nothing less than

1

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

3

silk

5

back of the hand

2

jacket; book jacket; dust cover; CD jacket; record jacket

13

partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing

2

to gradually rise

1

isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation

3

legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way

1

Zhou dynasty (China, approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty; perimeter; counter for laps or circuits

2

soft voice

4

to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve

1

(sound of) laughter; laughing voice

6

to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry

5

meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club

2

cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike

15

demonstration; protest; (giving a) demo; demonstration; presentation

1

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

8

to do

2

mechanical

3

artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality

6

skin

6

body fluids

1

circulation; rotation; cycle; loop

2

artificial arm (hand)

13

artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)

2

bloodstained; bloody; covered with blood

3

fox hunt; fox hunting

1

byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse

3

good times; boom; (wave of) prosperity

1

influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on

13

to swarm; to gather

2