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no need to guess; certainly

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making one's debut; making one's first appearance; (just) showing one's face; showing up; introductory kabuki performance (to introduce the actors); December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

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filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents

4

with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft); with a thrust; with a stab; sullenly; sulkily; glumly

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oracle; revelation; divine message

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thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned

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in passing another (esp. colliding with oncoming traffic, bumping into a person); the moment two persons or objects meet

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headbutt

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to summon courage; to be brave

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to guess right

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classmate

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name; nameplate; caption; storyboard (of a manga); rough draft

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composition

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panel layout

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draft; rough copy

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it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say

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end; close; finish; end of play (in go)

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singing range; register

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to pick out item(s) from a group to keep

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babies' wear; baby clothes

2

feeling of envy; jealous feeling

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aggressive

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alternately; by turns

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brave woman; heroine; lady of character; Amazon

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tomoe; heraldic design composed of two or more interlocked comma-shaped figures

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presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.); outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); My Lord; My Lady

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police station

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raft; forearm protector; skewered baby-eel kabayaki

7

going downstream (in a boat)

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disclosure; exposure; revelation

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second-year student; biennial

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Sawyer

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dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened

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to dig up; to expose; to disclose

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married life

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lubrication; smoothness

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Sachiko

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binge eating; stress eating

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hyperspace; subspace

2

to praise (to the skies); to sing the praises (of); to extol

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mom's home cooking; taste of mom's cooking; taste of home cooking; food like mom used to make

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(not) in the slightest; (not) at all

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inner psychological world; mental world; spiritual world

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disconnect

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to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

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mid-season crops; mid-season rice; mid-season vegetables; metacarpus

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to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile

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to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken

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slender

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joining a company; getting a job with a company; entering a company

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