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to wait upon; to serve

2

to flatter; to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to suck up (to); to toady (to)

1

to rustle; to sway; to stir; to flutter

1

to view (cherry) blossoms; to look at flowers

1

to strike (each other); to come to blows; to fight (each other); to speak (to each other)

2

to bloom

2

surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard

2

red; red color (colour); red-colored; red; communism; the left

1

one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen coin, sometimes a 100-yen coin); costing 500 yen; costing 100 yen

1

businessman

1

pigtails; bunches; two ponytails; angel wings

1

prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)

1

friendly; affable; amiable; sociable; loving company; (animals) taking kindly to men

1

KGB (former Soviet Union intelligence agency)

3

mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity

1

any one; any; whichever

1

every week

3

one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends

1

to spread; to be propagated

2

recklessly; thoughtlessly; pamperingly; indulgently; shoo!; heave-ho; hallo

1

(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling

1

sales; selling; salesman

1

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

3

connection; pull

1

secrecy; highly classified information

1

retention; maintenance; preservation

1

member of a non-famous boy band or girl group; (lit.) underground idol

1

dry run; rehearsal

1

to glare at; to scowl at

1

otherwise; or else; if not

4

great delight; great satisfaction; rapture

2

a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly

2

rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

3

individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

1

blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down); huffing and puffing; puffing and panting; struggling (with work, studies, etc.); having difficulty

1

paper bag

1

black soybean

5

setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4), day of the bean scattering ceremony; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)

1

unseasonable; out of season

1

all night long; all through the night

2

stopwatch

2

charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking

3

dinner; evening meal

6

first class plus; extra special

4

tonight; this evening

2

equal; equivalent; equals sign; equality sign; equals (as in "A equals B")

2

it is assuredly (that)...; can say with confidence that it is...

1

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

2

to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish

1

to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to stew

4