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section; cross section; profile

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quick wit; ready wit

1

shabby; seedy

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impressions; thoughts; feelings; opinions

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to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

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to be clear; to be distinct; to be skillful; to be skilful; to be well-executed; to get cold

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ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

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operation (of a machine, etc.); operating; driving; working (capital, etc.)

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attentiveness

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vague; desultory; distracted; loose; half-hearted; diffuse

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to hurry on one's way

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as soon as possible; at the earliest time

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to come to nothing; to be spoiled; to be spoilt

1

twilight; sunset; dusk; evening

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all nighter; sleepless night

2

cavity (in old root vegetables, tofu, metal casting, etc.); pore; hollow; porous; pithy; spongy

1

judgment; judgement; discernment

1

short way; shortcut

1

incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless

1

accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas pedal

2

flooring the gas pedal; pedal to the metal

1

to narrow (e.g. eyes)

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passage (of people, traffic); passing; common usage

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to curse (at someone); to call someone names; to speak bitterly

2

big yawn

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intermittent

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curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

1

broken; intermittent; disconnected

1

to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

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to attract attention

2

unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short

1

with a "plop" (of tears, drop of water, etc.)

1

deeply religious; devout; godly; faithful

1

charm; amulet

2

windscreen; windshield

1

suction cup; suction pad; sucker

1

home position; origin; usual place (for something)

1

impertinent; impudent; cheeky

1

succeeding; following; trailing; next

1

character written by brush; brush-stroke character

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fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life

1

old woman; hag; bitch

1

saying; maxim; aphorism; proverb

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section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

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rubbing the wrong way (e.g. a cat); irritating

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to tear up and throw away

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to purse one's lips

1

wife and children; (arch.) wife

1

the human body; one's person

1

if it's going to be that way, then ...; if given the choice; if possible; if anything

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