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funny story; funny anecdote

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only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be

1

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

2

at this rate

1

creation; generation; formation; derivation

1

unprepared; careless; imprudent; indiscreet

1

dramatic

3

to pile up; to accumulate

2

castle

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favorite; favourite; habitually used

3

close; intimate; on good terms

2

absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)

3

overcrowding; crowded; congestion

3

hard training

2

to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous

4

hand-to-hand combat

2

to state; to express; to mention

1

to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)

2

immediately; as soon as possible; as quickly as possible

4

to parry; to sidestep; to dodge

6

to bend oneself backward

1

lessening; diminishing; reducing

1

what's what; heads or tails

1

fighting game (usu. one-on-one)

7

blow to a vital point of a person's body; striking techniques (judo)

5

a throw; a fall

1

offensive; aggressive

2

legitimate; orthodox; traditional

1

to wear away; to rub down; to abrade

1

to be jumbled together

3

original method or procedure; serious; orthodox; classical

2

quilt; bedding

1

deep-seated; deep-rooted; ingrained

2

exceedingly; extremely; decisively

6

intruder

4

to improve one's skill

2

seriously; no kidding; joking aside; in all seriousness

2

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

1

to cool down one's anger

7

hawk; falcon

4

to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback

4

with a thud

7

groggy

1

to intervene; to stop (something)

3

continuously; throughout; in succession

3

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

7

to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

1

withdrawal; retraction; revocation; repeal

3

to be harvested; to be reaped; to be yielded; to be able to harvest; to be able to reap; to be able to yield

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retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking

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