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firm; strong; unbending; unyielding; uncompromising; stubborn

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call; summons; subpoena

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chasing down and capturing (a criminal, etc.)

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official document; archives

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same meaning; synonymy

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to be blind to one's shortcomings; to play innocent

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to regret

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self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself

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mistake; error; fault; slip; blunder; omission

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desperation; despair; self-abandonment

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preparations for a journey

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to grow dark slowly

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pasture; grassland; meadow

4

the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields

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only because ...; definitely not; certainly not; if actually

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confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment

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injustice; impropriety; unreasonableness; undeserved; unfair; invalid

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the other day; some days ago; recently; a day in the past

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head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent

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to backfire; to have a harmful result

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let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect

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to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to seduce

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side of face

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to knock (a person) off his feet; to hit (something) hard; to send (someone) flying

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belch; eructation; burp

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innocence; guiltlessness; purity; uprightness; integrity

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to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite

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copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript

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excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance

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large-scale play; play with an A-list cast; big act; big charade; theatre with a government licence (Edo period)

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to shake; to wave; to swing; to sway

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conference; discussion

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to ask for; to apply for; to make an application for; to file a request for; to submit (e.g. one's resignation)

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at a disadvantage; in an unfavourable position; having poor prospects; standing little chance

2

one's subordinate

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centralized authoritarian rule; centralised authoritarian rule

2

to trip (over); to stumble; to fail; to suffer a setback

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to take offense; to take offence; to get angry; to lose one's temper

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to refuse; to decline; to deny

3

the ruler; sovereign

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the lower classes; the common people

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to flatly refuse; to reject; to spurn

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to gather strength; to take heart

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serious injury

2

to impose; to visit upon; to inflict

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performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

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kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse

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battlefield; battleground

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stray bullet

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to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)

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