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desire to protect

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excellent; very good; exultant; elated

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to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

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benefit; use; good; profit; gains

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wicked woman; ugly woman

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existential threat; life-or-death crisis

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to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

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before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

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mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...

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in detail; with great care; completely; fully

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to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle

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to descend; to stoop; to degrade oneself; to be reduced to

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goods; article; thing

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doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")

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to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric

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depravity; corruption; degradation

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poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)

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capture; seizure; military capture of a foreign vessel; making a prize of

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senility; dotage; decrepitude

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Imperial Guard (Meiji); personal guard

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to go too far

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insult; affront; slight; contempt (e.g. of court)

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to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you

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head; brains; intellect; understanding

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king who is a father

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views; opinion; discernment; pride; self-respect

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lining; backing; backing up (e.g. a theory); support; bolstering

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textbook; coursebook; schoolbook

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wise ruler; enlightened monarch; benevolent lord

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to manage a state; to govern a country

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workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings

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in person; personally; (do) oneself

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to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort

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to knock down; to knock off

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to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in

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to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts

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abusive language; violent language; wild words

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small tool; gadget; (stage) properties; prop; prop master

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to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)

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person concerned; interested party; related party

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interruption; suspension; break

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judgment; judgement; discernment

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super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than

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serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady

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whereabouts; place where one is; position; location

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lowering; sinking; depreciation; price fall; punch line (of a rakugo story); (arch.) sword strap

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here and there; everywhere

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so far as

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constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up

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to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone

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