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warm welcome

1

to gleam; to shine

1

jacket; book jacket; dust cover; CD jacket; record jacket

1

costume; fancy dress; masquerade; converted (cruiser)

2

to roll around laughing; to fold up; to hold one's sides with laughter

1

a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)

4

soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself

1

thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned

1

to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)

2

to tell (somebody) to (do something)

2

rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom

1

cosplay (dressing in costume, esp. as a manga character, etc.)

1

violently; without holding anything back; firmly; resolutely

1

so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite

1

to turn round; to face about; to turn about

1

to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare

1

invitation

1

what's the best thing to do?; what to do?

1

pressure

4

he; she; that guy

2

to defeat

1

honor; honour; credit; prestige

2

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend

2

private-school student

1

scholarship student

1

check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque

2

more than usual

3

warm-up

1

policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle

1

phase

1

crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.); doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; (arch.) sound of pouring liquid

1

500; five hundred; many

1

600; six hundred

1

to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)

8

simple calculation

3

to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline

2

the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all

1

to lose an easy game; to suffer an unexpected defeat; to lose information

1

to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove

1

to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent

1

difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

1

work; workmanship; craftsmanship; artifice; trick; device

2

opinion; point of view; visual point

3

insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint

2

action

1

to fear; to be afraid of

2

looking someone in the eyes; taking a straight look at something

2

never (even in error); never, ever; never, no matter what happens; by no means

5

what would (you) do?; what to do about it

1

special training; intensive training; crash course

2