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to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen

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neutrality (incl. chemical, electrical, etc.); indifference; sexlessness; androgyny; neuter gender

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to tuck (e.g. sleeves); to roll up

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nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing

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full view; plain sight; completely visible

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stick; club; cudgel; bludgeon

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to strike; to hit; to beat; to punch

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bruise

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to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap

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to lose consciousness

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deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing

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sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

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to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)

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concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works

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just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

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impertinent; saucy; cheeky; impudent; audacious; cocky

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historical novel

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weekly publication; weekly magazine

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speaking voice; talking voice

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once and for all; completely; spotlessly

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being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net

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The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully

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shhh! (sound used when getting someone to shut up); shoo! (sound used to drive animals away)

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to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple

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passing by

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past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)

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another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger

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above the ceiling

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memo pad

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softly; gently; lightly

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to flutter down

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paper

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kindergartener; preschooler

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unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty

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katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords

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to look upward

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to experience

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sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable

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top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes

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to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke

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hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains

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to write down

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note; memo; memorandum

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paper money; note; bill

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as before; as ever; as it was originally

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to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy

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absorption; suction; attraction

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to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for

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missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown

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agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting

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