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routine tasks or duties

2

house-cloth; dust cloth

2

cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging

1

leaving everything up to someone else

1

if you think about it; come to think of it

2

behind closed doors; behind-the-scenes; (under the veil of) secrecy

1

paper package

1

letter of challenge (to a duel, etc.)

1

certainly; for sure; distinctly; clearly; firmly; tightly

1

to wait for one's punishment; to wait before one gets what's coming to one; (lit.) to wash one's neck and wait (i.e. for one's beheading)

1

rope; cord; policeman's rope

1

hundred-yen store

1

simple work; repetitive job; unskilled work; menial work

1

needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer

1

to fold inside

1

school hours; hours of teaching (instruction)

1

to become brilliant; to become cheerful

1

to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with

2

to frame; to falsely accuse of a crime

2

to be grieved at heart; to be troubled; to be worried; to trouble oneself (about something)

2

cooperative body; cooperative system; collective; community

1

social life; social intercourse

1

to maintain; to continue to have

1

suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta

1

to get in touch with

1

estrangement; alienation; neglecting to stay in contact

1

unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel

1

same generation; one's generation

1

opposite side; reverse; (on the) other hand

1

to (be able to) make contact; to (be able to) get in touch

1

hectic; bewildering; bustling; dizzy

1

priority matter

1

dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid; boring; prosaic

1

similar to; like

1

weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence

1

pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)

1

mailbox; mail box; email box

1

to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)

1

to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

2

throughout Japan

2

human relations; personal relationships

1

equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent

1

starting line; starting point

1

to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

1

hard to get; hard to come by

1

feeling of alienation

2

relationship; relation

1

outcast; odd man out; pariah

1

throughout; all through; right through

1

even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is

1