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zip fastener; zipper; zip; chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)

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tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery

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white of the eye; cold, unwelcoming eyes

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to put out one's tongue; to stick out one's tongue

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opossum

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strange voice

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Zhou dynasty (China, approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty; perimeter; counter for laps or circuits

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Shinto; Shintoism

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humor; humour

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Sugawara no Michizane (845-903)

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when it comes to the cause; when you get right down to it; as for what started it; as for the reason; originally

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hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible

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good luck charm; uttered when using magic; abracadabra; presto

7

main shrine; inner sanctuary

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forcing; compulsion; coercion; pushing (to do)

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taking an examination (esp. school and university entrance)

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to leave; to depart; to take one's leave

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to become speechless; to be at a loss for words

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trouble; bother

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fortune slip (usu. bought at a shrine)

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to tell someone's fortune; to forecast; to predict; to divine

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failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year); falling short of the standard; not making the grade

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back-facing; backwards; backward-looking; retrogressive; reactionary

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to pass (examination)

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you are quite right; reasonable; natural; just

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to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain

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pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously

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scrubbing brush; scourer

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congratulations!; well done!; best wishes!; all the best!

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lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots)

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to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

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circuitous; roundabout; indirect

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custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

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excellent luck

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still more; even more; much more; increased; greater

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overall

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studies; schoolwork; classwork

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hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member

2

patience; endurance

2

to fall asleep

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dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now

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lately; recently

3

sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching

7

to scatter around; to leave untidy; to make a mess

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to be lazy; to be slack; to feel dull; to feel languid; to feel listless

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mochi; (sticky) rice cake

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defense; defence; pleading; advocacy

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neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

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university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

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to be idle; to slacken; to neglect (e.g. one's work)

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