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good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

17

travelling incognito (traveling); special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito

1

to be at a loss for words

1

to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

1

pain; ache; soreness; damage; injury; wear

2

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

2

is that so? (generally rhetorical)

2

consequence; outcome; result; blame

6

to realize; to realise; to hit upon something

1

surely; certainly

2

most; extremely

1

important; momentous; essential; principal; major

1

part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

2

lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship

1

that is to say; so that means

2

big problem

1

on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead

1

diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing

1

ceremony; rites

1

offence; offense; hindrance

1

official; governmental; public (use, matter, forum, etc.); common; being public knowledge; being out in the open

1

disinheritance

1

funny; amusing; strange; odd; improper; unsuitable

5

why?; what for?; how?; by what means?

6

gender; distinction of sex; sex

1

mistake; error; accident; mishap; improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion

1

isn't that right?

7

so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already

25

after all; because; but; even; too; as well

14

a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago

4

was

13

as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still

3

to respond; to satisfy; to accept; to comply with; to apply for

3

shame; embarrassment; disgrace

1

to glare at; to scowl at

3

lens

3

across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for

2

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

2

emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment

1

to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

1

exactly; precisely; closely; tightly; properly; without fail

1

to comb down; to smooth down

2

black hair

1

disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment

3

seeming very

1

tension; mental strain; nervousness

6

absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous

1

to take a breath; to take a short rest

1

and; thereupon; because of that

1

somehow; for some reason; without knowing why

1