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sounds

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clearing one's throat; cough

2

mockery; derision; ridicule

4

to look down (on); to condescend (to)

1

hiding; concealment

1

secret ceremony; ritual; sanctum sanctorum

2

secret art; the mysteries

1

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

8

to turn pale; to lose color; to lose colour

1

equipment; device; installation; stage setting

1

royal

1

completion (of a course)

1

agent; proxy

1

foreign enemy; outside invader

3

municipal (civic) law; domestic law; national law

1

international law; law of nations

4

deviation; departure; omission

2

confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)

5

unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain

1

by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all

2

warm and fluffy; soft; steamy hot (food); hot and flaky; feeling mentally tired; feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance

1

to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous

1

deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense

1

emphatic sentence-ending particle

1

house-sitting; house-sitter; caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo period)

2

pendant

2

(finger) ring

3

(balance) scales; shoulder carrying pole; steelyard

8

's house; 's home

1

family crest

2

loyalty; devotion

3

swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply

1

to take a class

2

thin; skinny; delicate; fragile; feeble

5

lawn; sod; turf

1

to pay attention; to be watchful

1

to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to

4

to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate

1

usual state of things

1

to wish to go well; to have good intentions

1

assumption; supposition; hypothesis

4

one's beloved daughter

2

grandmother

1

early stage

3

unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking

1

futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

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A word describing the sound made when things are rubbed or pressed against each other; The act of cramming or shoving things to the brim

2

to continue writing

1

to talk (a person) down; to confute

1

moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc.); advancement; progress (of a disease); disease progression

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