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to employ; to hire; to charter

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group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants); non-human

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origin; beginning; genesis; primeval; primordial; primitive

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to give one's life; to lay down one's life

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to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)

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evil spirit

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embankment; bank; beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin

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hill road

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to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stretch over; to span; to bridge

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dignified appearance; majestic appearance; imposing appearance

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both banks (of a river)

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bridge girder

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to warn against; to caution against; to admonish; to scold; to prohibit; to forbid; (arch.) to be cautious

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to go out; to go around; to walk about; to roam

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suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action

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to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)

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it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say

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damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy

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to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle

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to devour greedily; to wolf down; to gobble up

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to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily

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to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff

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decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay

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stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause

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succeeding; following; trailing; next

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to push through (a crowd, vegetation, etc.)

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substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality

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wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper

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arrangement of stones in a garden

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speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

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original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive

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to be slow; to not make progress; to be inefficient

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(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means

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fall; decline; string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt; food offering to the gods; leftovers

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mystery; wonder

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ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon

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type; pattern; shape; similar type; similar pattern

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goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre

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witnessing; observing; sighting

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bleak; chilly; dreary

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signs; omen; symptoms

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to bring; to take; to bring about

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to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)

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doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary

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sense of equilibrium; sense of balance

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disappointment; despair; despondency; broken heart; adversity

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to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point

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reward; recompense; return; punishment; retribution

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faint; slight; vague; nebulous; indeterminate; tinge of ...

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to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on

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