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advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde (e.g. music)

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sense of the seasons; feeling of seasonality

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pair; two kinds; two ways

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uniform; equal; even; common; ordinary; usual

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incommunicative; taciturn

2

hearsay

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late autumn (fall); (arch.) ninth month of the lunar calendar

3

bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine

3

hot spring; onsen; hot spring resort; hot spring spa

2

föhn phenomenon; foehn phenomenon

1

thermal power generation

1

dozen

1

to run aground; to strike a rock; to be stranded on a reef; to reach a deadlock; to come to a standstill; to run into difficulties

1

tumor; tumour; swelling; boil; abscess

1

to get involved or entangled in; to get mixed up in; to have something to do with; to have dealings with

3

universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous

2

to insert; to put in (such that there is a snug fit); to have sex; to fuck; to pigeonhole (into a particular category); to place a ring-shaped object around something (esp. one that restricts freedom, such as handcuffs)

2

not only

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calm (at sea); lull

1

raging waves; stormy seas; hardships; troubles; adversities

1

human psychology

1

oppression; tyranny; despotism

3

bar; bolt (e.g. on door); double-arm lock; (rope) cinching

1

to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)

1

speech; eloquence; manner of speaking; manner of expression

1

turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling

6

solitary island

2

low tide; low water; ebb

1

Honshū (largest of the four main islands of Japan); Honshu

7

major earthquake; large earthquake

1

usually; ordinarily; always; continuous; 24-hour (operation, care, etc.); constant

3

tied island; land-tied island

1

what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

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hill; knoll

4

picturesque scenery; place of scenic beauty

1

watch-keeping; guard; lookout

2

turret; watchtower; high wooden stage; scaffolding; wooden frame (of a kotatsu); yagura

4

anti-aircraft; antiaircraft

2

aquatic; on the water

1

gun turret

1

to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude

1

important position; strategic point; important point; main point; essentials

2

defense; defence; defensive preparations

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force (bulldoze) one's way through

7

entrance; threshold; beginning; first step; start

1

to take off; to jump; to take the plunge; to decide; to step out of the ring

5

geography

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to call a person's attention (to)

3

to be lost in deep thought; to be deeply immersed in thought

1

rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)

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