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obedient; submissive; docile; meek; pliant

1

to live up to expectations; to meet expectations

2

giving up; quitting; surrendering

2

weaver

1

panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind

1

clever; intelligent; bright; well-behaved (esp. of children and pets); obedient; good

6

gross; disgusting

3

these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately

5

strength training; resistance training; muscle-building

1

doing long training runs

2

expresses incredulousness, disbelief, irony, etc.

8

madly in love; head over heels; fanatically doting; collapsed; out of spirits

2

not understanding; not knowing

1

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

2

song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry

3

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

1

quality (of a product or a service)

1

no more than that; with that; on that note; since then; ending there

1

icebox

2

fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit

2

to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)

6

bottomless; endlessly deep; infinite

1

referee; umpire

1

informal; unofficial

2

to run around; to bustle about

1

personal history; background; career

2

stain; blot; flaw; disgrace

1

one passage; one paragraph; one stanza; one verse; one section (of a piece of music); one syllable

1

to get rid of; to erase; to dispel; to eradicate; to wipe away

1

saying goodbye (to); bidding farewell (to); breaking off (with); farewell; goodbye; adieu

2

picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

1

reprimand; rebuke; reproach; scolding

4

to get change back; to be more than enough

2

lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

9

taking the field first; batting second

1

one color; one kind; one tendency; being the sole mood, sentiment, focus of attention, etc.

1

spotlight; close observation

1

young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl; small; cute; (arch.) prostitute

167

Kuraki Mai

1

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978.10.2-; singer)

1

Izumi Shikibu (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)

3

comparison

2

large build; large pattern

4

thin; slender; slim; skinny

4

body build; physique; frame

3

Chōshū; (former) Nagato Province

1

if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

1

always; constantly; at all times; habitually

4

predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

1

to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in

3