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science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits

1

profiling

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foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)

1

itchy; creepy; feeling uneasy

1

buoy; lifebuoy

1

more haste, less speed; slow and steady wins the race

1

fate; destiny; predestination

1

proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim

1

truth

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mystery

1

secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller

3

antique; curio

1

to look old; to get old

1

mayor

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cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time

1

diary; journal

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publication

1

dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened

1

historic landmark; historic site; historic remains

1

monument (stele, gravestone, etc.) engraved with a waka

1

avid reader; bookworm

1

research

1

obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale

1

taking on (a challenge); attempt; try; tackling; challenging (someone to a contest)

1

commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise

1

regular; regular member (e.g. of football team, etc.); regular (petrol, gasoline)

1

gelato; Italian-style ice cream

1

Japanese mustard spinach (Brassica rapa var. perviridis)

1

bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building

3

recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement

1

private management

1

good quality; fine quality; superior quality; high quality

1

shop manager

3

silver-gray hair; silver-grey hair; attractive older man with some gray hair

1

gentlemanly; gentlemanlike; in the manner of a gentleman

1

outward appearance; apparent

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to blank out; to panic

1

normal

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ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people

1

pretending to respect someone while in fact staying distant; keeping at arm's length; avoiding (something unpleasant); shying away from; giving the batter an "intentional walk"

1

blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end

1

look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute

1

neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity

1

love hotel; short-stay hotel used primarily for sexual activities

1

tourist information (brochure, map, center)

2

can be easily guessed

1

little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept secret place; hole-in-the-wall

1

to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter

1

saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly

1

circumference; girth; tour; pilgrimage; circulation (e.g. of blood)

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