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modest; reserved; quiet; humble

1

narrator; storyteller; reciter

1

shortcut; short-cut hairstyle for women

1

World Cup (e.g. soccer)

1

overall victory; championship

16

gold cup; gilded cup; goblet

15

viewer; (television) audience

34

chalice (for Holy Communion); Holy Chalice; Holy Grail

2

arsenic (As)

1

listening respectfully

1

to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)

1

to concentrate one's effort (on something)

3

hot stock

1

to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards

2

fixed form; regular shape; standard-size mail

1

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

2

prayer; supplication

1

worship

1

posterity; future life; life to come

1

commercialization (e.g. product); commodification

1

via; through; by doing; by means of; using

3

technical prowess; technical ability; technical finesse; technological prowess; technological capabilities

3

to be thirsty

1

condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); condensation (of a vapour or gas)

4

to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm

2

showy; ostentatious

2

regular; ordinary (e.g. session of parliament); established usage; precedent; regular practice

1

worldly-minded person; materialist; uncultured person; philistine; vulgar person; snob

1

experimental results

3

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

3

all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation

2

contest of strength; trial of strength

1

official notice; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace

1

boasting of one's strength

1

to listen to in an ecstasy

1

mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

5

to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of

1

passing mark

1

atheist

1

traitor

1

rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite

3

good; goodness; right; virtue

2

sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams

7

to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

1

bridge (of a koto, etc.); cylinder; prism

1

please don't fuss over me; don't go to any trouble; don't bother

1

to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)

3

violence; reckless action; (an) outrage

2

immediately; at once; instantly

3

loss of eyesight; loss of vision; going blind; blindness

1