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bar; measure; short pause (in writing); petty principles; minor details

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sports-minded; sports-oriented

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being accomplished in both the literary and military arts; doing well in both school and sports

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literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)

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end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

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application; subscription; entry (competition, raffle, etc.); enlistment

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dozen

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partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting

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subject; theme

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to write a novel

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odd number

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chapter; section; medal; badge; insignia

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even number

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murder case

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hedge; fence; border; limit

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fiction; fabrication; concoction; fictitious; fictional; imaginary

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large biceps; well-developed biceps

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not care; not caring

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handsome youth (male); pretty boy

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one's impressions after reading a book

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unusual book

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kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer

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ignorance; innocence; stupidity

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the five senses

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accumulation; accumulate; store

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to detain; to keep; to lock up; to retain; to leave (letter) till called for

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one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N

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10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

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replacement; substitute; displacement; transposition; reset

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to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle

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horizon (related to bodies of water)

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

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boundary line

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easy to understand

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prime number

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three cheers

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entry (event, competition, etc.); applying for entry; registering to participate; entry (blog, database, etc.); post

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participation in a war; going to war; taking part in a competition or contest

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caustic words

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lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say

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first part of a poem or verse

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lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

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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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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven; long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century)

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present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

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same meaning; synonymy

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to stick it out (until the end)

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Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters; Japan's oldest historical record

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Nihon Shoki; Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan

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