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bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase

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staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

1

shopping basket; market basket

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book; publication

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to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

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to pay the bill; to settle an account

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to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

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merchant's home; rented home; store; shop

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outside of; not covered by

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children's book

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westward trip; trip to the West

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account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters

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to be absorbed in reading

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free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling

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naivete; simplicity; innocence

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to be born (with); to be born (to be); to be destined

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now that; since; so long as; because

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Sanzouhoushi

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everybody; every last one of them; all

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central; main; just (done); freshly (baked); counter for consecutive losses

2

witch

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princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue

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prison; jail; gaol

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at first; in the beginning; originally

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conversion; reform; correcting someone's conduct

3

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

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cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; appearing on the cover of a magazine

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teary eyes

2

strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious

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(book) illustration

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to attract notice; to catch the eye; to stand out

2

Edward

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Leigh (Britain); Ri; Li; Lie

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creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright

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picture book

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candy

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to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain

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at full speed; as fast as one's legs can carry one

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to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

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to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one

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to state; to express; to mention

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marriage

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rush mat; matting; mat

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slip of the tongue; misstatement; verbal slip-up

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assistant (esp. in show business or sumo); attendant; chaperon

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to read aloud to another

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to have the privilege of doing

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to buy up; to lay in a stock; to stock up; to buy a lot

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paper bag

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to take along; to hold in the hand; to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist)

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