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failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name

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stiff (atmosphere, manner, etc.); cold; unfriendly; thin and bony; scrawny

1

to soften; to moderate; to relieve

1

to pick on; to tease

1

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

2

to make tea

1

putting life into; animating; cheering up

1

to get up (from sitting); to stand up; to (finally) start to do something; to get off one's backside; to take action

2

tingling; stinging; pungently

2

depravity; corruption; degradation

1

unread

1

checking one's e-mail

1

briskly; energetically; livelily; efficiently; crisply; vigorously

1

godsend; lifesaver; timely offer; windfall

1

way of thinking; point of view; opinion; approach (e.g. to a problem); attitude

1

spam mail

1

is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

1

attaching the polite suffix "-san" to someone's name

2

reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryō codes)

1

grumbling; muttering; complaining; moaning

1

totteringly; staggeringly; unsteadily; lanky; spindly; slender

2

to pray; to say a prayer; to say grace; to wish; to hope

5

after; since

1

nature; disposition; temperament; qualities; attributes; talents

3

a little more; a bit more

1

SM; S&M; sado-masochism; shopping mall

1

couple

4

to account for; to make up; to occupy (a place, position, etc.); to hold (a rank, seat, etc.); to occupy (one's mind, heart, etc.); to weigh (on one's mind)

1

property; possession

1

copy-and-paste; copypasta (block of text that is copied and pasted across the Internet)

1

talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque

2

wholly; solely; entirely; principally; mostly; chiefly

1

weight; body weight; importance; weight; emphasis

1

lie; fib; falsehood; untruth

1

soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost

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brake; drag; skid; brake (on inflation, spending, etc.); check; restraint

3

deceitful; cruel

3

Wood Snake (42nd term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1905, 1965, 2025)

2

favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right

5

telephone receiver; telephone mouthpiece; making a telephone call; receiving a telephone call

1

supernatural phenomenon; paranormal phenomenon; anomalous phenomenon

1

to think too much; to be over-concerned

4

borrowing; debt; loan

1

lending and borrowing

1

without

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there being no use in arguing (about it); not up for discussion

1

reply; response; -less; sexless (relationship); loess

1

arrival (of post, news, correspondence, etc.); receiving (a phone call, email, etc.)

2

slightly cloudy

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dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered

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