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being very popular; being in great demand

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education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education

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delightful; satisfying; gratifying; brisk; piquant

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Nikkari

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infant; baby; little child

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weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending

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pedestrian traffic

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to resound; to echo; to reverberate

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top notch; first rate; top-of-the-line; leading

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presbyopia; age-related longsightedness; farsightedness

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practical problem; practical matter

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debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

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extraordinarily; astonishingly; extremely; terribly; unreasonably; absurdly

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other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

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profit

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impossible dream

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to be profitable; to pay

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alongside a railway line, bus route, major thoroughfare, etc.

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population; common talk

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ta-dah!; ta-da!; voilà!

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descendant; posterity; offspring

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same meaning; synonymy

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fragment; piece

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shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety

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(not so) much; (not) very

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stature; height

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to hide; to be hidden; to conceal oneself; to disappear

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at full speed; impetuously; precipitately; headlong

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light brown; tawny

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outward appearance

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to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

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long talk; long-winded speech

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to get impatient; to become irritated; to fret; to chafe

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vexing; irritating; impatient

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right in front; just opposite; under the nose

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floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly

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and; thereupon; because of that

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here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now

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to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour); to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden; to ripen; to grow ripe

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little finger; pinky; little toe

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marriage vows

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historical play; period drama

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fresh and youthful; lively; vibrant; vivacious; juicy (e.g. fruit)

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moisture; damp; richness; warmth; financial leeway; gains

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this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

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afterlife; the next world; the world beyond

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nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son

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throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

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pledge; vow; (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse; destiny; fate

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between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis

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