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to appease; to suppress; to calm

1

to insert; to put between; to tuck (e.g. fabric into a gap)

4

straight-laced person; stubborn person

1

fastidiousness; love of cleanliness

1

to tremble; to shiver; to shake

4

silver thread

1

some; several; many; how many; how much; very

6

vocabulary notebook; ring of vocabulary flash cards

1

oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation

1

closely (sticking, clinging, etc.); tightly

1

ruby; ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material); Ruby (programming language)

1

to appear suddenly

1

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

6

mating

1

to stay long; to hang around; to hang out; to be immersed (in water) for a long time; to soak

2

pieces; scraps; disconnected

1

to boil; to simmer

1

another surname

1

to lurk; to hover in the background; to be coiled up; to stretch tortuously

1

easily; readily; with ease; without trouble

3

to cover up; to conceal

1

whichever one chooses; either way

2

obstinate; stubborn; headstrong

1

frequently; often; (staring) fixedly; narrowly; closely

2

bathroom

3

urine; small amount of water

2

to put to shame; to humiliate; to disgrace; to rape; to assault; to violate

1

flesh-color; flesh-colour

8

southern country; southern provinces; southern lands

1

main performer; star performer; headliner; rakugo storyteller of the highest rank

1

to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)

1

heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth

1

marriage; wedding

2

quagmire; sludge; mud; slush; mire

1

underside

1

receiver; recipient

1

sweetheart; person in one's thoughts (heart)

1

off the coast; offshore; out at sea

1

(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently

2

dogs and cats; pets; something trivial; worthless thing

1

to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)

3

wholeheartedly; single-mindedly; earnestly; intently; determinedly

1

to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive about; to be fixated on; to obstruct; to hinder

4

circumstantial evidence

1

Gordian knot

2

date(s) (e.g. for exhibition)

2

feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)

2

distant future; inevitable future; places one goes to

2

to make (good) progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance

1

upper; upward; outer; surface; top

2