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to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to

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downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

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a minute; moment; an instant; stubborn; hot-headed

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postponement; deferment; extension (of time)

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businessman; industrialist

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bookshop; bookstore

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activity; action; occupation; business; sexual intercourse; sex

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riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious

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elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding

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immersion; being absorbed in

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to throw away

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while alive; during one's lifetime

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season; time of year

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old man; old geezer

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shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable

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beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially

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insanity; insane person; arbiter of taste; connoisseur

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hawk; falcon

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to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect

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Saigyouhoushi

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research; investigation; enquiry; inquiry; study

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entertainment (at a party); amusement; fun; trick

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to hide; to keep to oneself

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present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

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to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment

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few decades; many decades; several decades

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spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

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bald mountain; denuded mountain; bare hill; treeless hill

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one night; all night; overnight; one evening

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(some type of) enthusiast; somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality

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brain; brains; mind

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court lady; lady-in-waiting

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to let one's hair hang down

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to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)

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guidance; leadership; leading the way

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cloud

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lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily

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prosperous; flourishing; popular; widespread; active; lively

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to be boisterously noisy

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blue

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exterior; outside; outer; external; lateral

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to shed light; to cast light

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the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles); Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine

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the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow

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the four seasons

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to play a leading role; to play a central part

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clock; watch; timepiece

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to be fascinated (by); to be captivated by; to be enchanted by; to gaze admiringly at; to watch in fascination

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walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)

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pearl gray; pearl grey

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