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diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted

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light brown; tawny

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air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

4

to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still

2

to come and stay; to drop in; to visit

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expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately

3

800; eight hundred; multitude; large number

1

hotel

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grill (esp. fish grill); grilled food; grill room; restaurant serving grilled food; (radiator) grille

1

dark red; deep red

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feeling; mood

2

to create (an atmosphere, feeling, etc.); to produce; to engender

1

pale; pallid; bluish-white

1

in a lively way; vividly; freshly; animatedly; actively; energetically

1

light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence

6

to break the ice; to broach a subject; to bring up a topic

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normal school (pre-war Japan); teachers' training college

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timid; faint of heart

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to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled

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to be reliable

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yesterday

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have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary

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however

2

he; she; that guy

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a bit more; a bit longer

4

hardships; privations; difficulties

1

conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over

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escape; evasion; flight

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advice; warning

2

persuasion

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timid; fainthearted

1

as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

3

true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience

1

that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

4

perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance

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temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction

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and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

3

religious leader; person of religion; religious figure; religionist

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politician; statesman

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confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)

2

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

4

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

2

to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail

2

to vomit; to spit out

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to tell (somebody) to (do something)

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opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery

2

dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

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person with whom to speak; someone to talk to; companion; advisor; adviser

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promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate

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sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment

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