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enclosing (e.g. with a letter)

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notes; instructions

4

careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate

2

calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry

2

to rise; to erect; to get up

3

to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)

2

group work

1

seedling; young plant; rice seedling

1

to plant; to transplant; to instil (idea, feeling, etc.)

1

while moving; on the move

2

second floor; upstairs

1

courtyard; quadrangle; middle court

2

anguished; distressed; worried; horny

1

thumping (heart); banging; pounding; racing

2

dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)

1

so what?; what of it?; and?; why do you ask?

1

persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate

1

to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for

1

to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

1

wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I

1

beast; brute; animal

2

predator

1

to take by surprise

1

to thrust away; to send flying

1

to go wrong; to turn for the worse

1

wholeheartedly; single-mindedly; earnestly; intently; determinedly

1

sincere; honest; faithful

1

to whirl; to eddy; to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.); to surge; to sweep

3

willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord

1

sense of impending crisis; sense of danger

1

as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible

2

(flower) bud; promising young person; budding beauty

2

rest; relief; relaxation

1

how; in what way; by what means

2

to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)

3

listener's role

1

to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)

1

one's own room

2

to resound; to echo; to reverberate

1

intruder; invader; trespasser; raider

1

below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after

2

a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family

6

to become speechless; to be at a loss for words

1

shelf; ledge; rack; trellis

1

upper tier; upper section; place of honor; place of honour; dais; raised part of floor

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

3

to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)

1

nonchalantly; calmly; as if nothing happened

1

offender; criminal; culprit

1

loss of strength; exhaustion; weakness

1