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swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man

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to improve one's skill (esp. at calligraphy or drinking larger amounts of alcohol)

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to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do

1

even so; anyhow; at any rate

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to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)

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to cut off the retreat

2

chartered ship; chartering or hiring a vessel

2

standing firm; holding out

2

to be postponed; to be deferred; to be delayed

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planning; project; plan; design

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boundary line

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profit; earnings

5

wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land

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job magazine

1

mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation

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decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

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very great; enormous; serious

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northwest

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Henkel; Henckell

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Lancel (French manufacturer)

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copper mine

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how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

2

return; relapse; recurrence

2

first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being

2

halving; splitting evenly; sharing equally

4

exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal

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recovery; rescue; recapture

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degassing; gas drainage; gas venting; letting off steam; letting out stress; letting out feelings

4

edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)

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to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together

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thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

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blunt weapon

2

to capture; to seize; to plunder

1

sandbank (in a river); sandbar

2

sandbank (in a river); sandbar

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to begin to strike; to kick out; to forcefully expel; to hammer (pattern, etc.) into metal

2

source of river; fountainhead

4

so-so; passable; now, now; my, my

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weak attitude

2

to take advantage (of somebody's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on

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decisive defeat; rout; thrashing; losing big

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principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol; the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter

2

public works; public-works projects; public utilities

2

support; backing; patronage

4

to pitch camp; to set up camp

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sentry; sentinel

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to lose an easy game; to suffer an unexpected defeat; to lose information

1

arrangement; pact; agreement

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conclusion; execution (of a contract); entering (into treaty); fastening (as in a joint)

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special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu

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