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certainly; surely; definitely

2

genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional

9

staying over

1

improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank

6

beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta)

1

first part of a poem or verse

8

lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

5

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

5

ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card

18

one by one; one each; one at a time

2

expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC

1

donjara; ponjan; simplified children's version of mahjong

1

mahjong; mah-jongg

1

falsely similar; counterfeit

1

plan; meter; measuring device; (in) total; total (of)

1

detour; roundabout way

1

furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking

3

rhyming game; play on words; pun

2

to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

1

Ekaterina

1

to pass (examination)

2

to kick; to refuse; to reject; to stamp (on the ground); to firmly press one's feet (against something)

3

wind blowing down from a mountain

1

summer solstice

1

he; him; boyfriend

5

tax evasion

1

to make merry; to be festive

3

to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)

1

to come off; to be worn off; to fade; to discolor; to discolour

1

to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry

2

wig; hairpiece

1

worst; poor and boring; uncool

2

mischief; prank; pastime; hobby; playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with

1

low intelligence; low IQ; feeble-mindedness; unintelligent person; person with a low IQ

1

redundancy; superfluity; useless addition

1

manicure; nail polish; nail varnish

1

all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults

1

manufacture; production

1

machine

1

disregarding; ignoring

2

notebook; copy-book; note; noting down; (musical) note; laptop (computer)

6

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

2

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

3

to crowd; to flock; to swarm

2

Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

7

to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore

3

chief; main; principal; main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)

1

to complain about; to grumble; to make an excuse for

1

remote mountain; mountain recesses

3

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

1