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cleaning floors

1

imposing stance; daunting pose

1

to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss

1

spreading one's legs wide apart; straddle; long stride; big steps; thigh-scooping body drop

2

grim face

1

disregarding; ignoring

1

definitely; absolutely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness

8

to dominate (usu. one's husband)

1

handkerchief

3

to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire

3

head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)

2

Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people

2

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

6

to make a sound

9

noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe

2

young girl; lass; adolescent female

6

unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)

6

to keep step (with); to keep pace (with); to move in lockstep; to align (with another's thoughts or actions)

1

slow motion (video); moving slowly; moving leisurely

3

every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)

1

to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it

1

temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical

2

unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene

2

to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be

1

primness; prim person; clear soup; water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.)

1

and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

1

timid; faint-hearted; wimpish

1

older; senior

2

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

9

dinner; evening meal

2

great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough

5

needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer

3

woven mat (esp. one made of straw); (arch.) seat

1

cabbage roll; stuffed cabbage

2

somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

5

nature; property; disposition

1

beginning of spring

1

female (animal, plant)

2

cycle

1

wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do

2

irritating; aggravating; upsetting

2

bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water

1

to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait

16

to mediate; to intervene

2

considerably; fairly; quite

2

to doze (off)

1

carpet; rug; runner

6

smelling of mold; musty; putrid; old-fashioned; stale; hackneyed

1

Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

6

perspective

1