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to refuse; to decline; to deny

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to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

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to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)

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search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.

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transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance

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bigoted; obstinate; stubborn; pigheaded

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to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear

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light tank; whippet tank

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to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at

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to long for; to yearn after; to admire; to be attracted by

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to rot away; to crumble to dust; to decay completely; to die in obscurity

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to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread

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closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final

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old age; age; old people; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) my humble self

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mouth of river; estuary

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honorary title

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special forces

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air transportation; air transport; transport by air

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to run; to dash; to gallop (on horseback); to canter; (arch.) to advance (against one's enemy); (arch.) to charge (on horseback)

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expeditionary force

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Manchuria

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Manchukuo (Japanese Manchurian puppet state; 1932-1945)

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sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

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black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person

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Shahe City (Hebei)

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Japan and Russia; Russo-Japanese

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confrontation of armies

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active; positive; progressive

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glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off

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minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)

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to fall below (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to be less than; to be lower than; to fall just short of; to be just under

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rice ball

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to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal

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intense cold

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supply line

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Trans-Siberian Railway

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slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out

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accumulation

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often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

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bad habit; bad habits

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convenient

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to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively

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Siberia; cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake

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single horseman; wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed

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crossing; traversing; traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west); cutting horizontally

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Fukushima Yasumasa (1852-1919)

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authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers

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Tanaka Giichi (1863.8.6-1929.9.28)

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famous; notorious; noted

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barfin flounder (Verasper moseri)

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