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with a grin

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sense of justice

1

assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement

1

first half

1

future (usually near); prospects

1

candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination

1

true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience

3

hiding one's embarrassment

1

really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way

1

to summon courage; to be brave

1

quite clearly; quite distinctly; perfectly; exactly

1

lamp; light

2

to give one's heart to; to fall in love; to turn one's mind towards; to think of

1

female teacher

1

way; method; means

1

distortion (often used for caricature in manga, etc.); deformation

1

unique; peculiar; special

1

to create (an atmosphere, feeling, etc.); to produce; to engender

1

wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line

2

treetop; tip of a branch

1

walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel); lots of coins or jewels; cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving; large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.)

1

sand; grit

1

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

2

to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind

1

song lyrics; words of a song; libretto

1

to pull together with the hands; to adjust (e.g. one's collar); to arrange

1

feeling of oppression

1

to push (something) against

4

to cut; to slit

3

dark night

1

water fountain

1

immediately; instantly; with nary a pause; without a moment's delay

1

to leap back; to jump back

4

cloud of dust (sand, etc.)

1

night air; stillness of night; cool evening

1

to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange

4

standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against

4

surely; certainly; without doubt

1

coward; namby-pamby; wimp; weak-kneed person; spineless person

1

bump; lump; protuberance; swelling

2

two (long cylindrical things)

1

(tree) trunk; (arrow) shaft; (tool) handle; backbone; base

3

trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)

1

supple; flexible; elastic; graceful; elegant; refined

1

paint

8

thick; viscous; muddy; dirty (with oil, grease, etc.); to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.); to be murky

1

drum

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to irritate one; to get on one's nerves

1

to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home

1

for a while; for some time; for a period

1