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bustling; shuffling; squirming; creepy crawly

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nine-tailed fox; old, golden-furred fox with nine tails and shapeshifting powers used to fool humans; orig. a Chinese mystical beast whose appearance was considered auspicious

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to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off

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the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive

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mysterious; bewitching; alluring; enticing; enchanting

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breath; sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality

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continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

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lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)

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Rahu (Hindu demon)

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kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times; the seven common disguises of ninja

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transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself; artificial fly (for fishing)

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seven; seven years of age; four o'clock (old time system)

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the seven spring flowers; the seven fall flowers; the seven autumn flowers; the seventh of January; Festival of Seven Herbs

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show one's real ability; illustration of the distinctive character of (something)

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severe; hard

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lesson; precept; teachings; moral

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eight (long cylindrical things)

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darkness

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characteristic (of); peculiar (to)

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change of color; change of colour; fading; discoloration; discolouration

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thick; viscous; muddy; dirty (with oil, grease, etc.); to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.); to be murky

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black (colour, color)

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sludge; slime; chemical ooze

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viscosity

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liquid

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secretion

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to trickle down

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waterfall; (arch.) rapids

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to vomit; to spit out

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India ink; China ink; ink (of a cuttlefish, etc.)

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pitch black

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pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari

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reservoir; pond

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to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity

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instead; but (on the other hand)

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water's surface

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bulging; swelling (e.g. with water); loose-fitting or baggy (clothing); bubbling; foaming

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foaming; frothing; lathering

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to crawl out; to creep out; to begin to crawl

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covered with; stained; smeared

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to coagulate; to curdle; to be fanatical; to be obsessed with; to stiffen; to become stiff

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mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief

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erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion

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(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain

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long distance; tele-

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to pound away; to hit at random; to hit ceaselessly

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rapidly (e.g. progress, moving forward); growing visibly; quickly; steadily; by leaps and bounds

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to feel that something is true or actually happening; to hit one (realization, thought); to sink in

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origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning

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to press a question; to cross-examine

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