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soft, coaxing voice; wheedling voice; ingratiating voice

1

reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

1

pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship

2

scorn; disdain; contempt

1

to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

1

close to the wall; alongside the wall

1

(your) daughter; young woman

1

far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far

1

troublesome; annoying; complicated

2

productivity

1

nonsense; no meaning; meaningless

1

goddess; female deity

1

song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry

2

reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

2

undeserved honor (honour); too great an honour

1

administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like

1

boastful speech; bragging

6

to escape; to make one's getaway; to manage to get away

1

flight; desertion; escape

2

art; technique; means; way; trick; trap

2

best; greatest; first

1

to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express

1

trouble; troubles; worry; distress; sorrows; anguish

2

mindset; outlook; view; way of looking at things; perspective

1

emotional; sentimental

2

self-righteous

1

contraction; narrowing; stricture; stenosis

1

special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial

1

to ponder; to brood

1

to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to

1

discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment

1

apathetic; indifferent

1

medicine; healing art

3

attending physician; physician in charge; (one's) family doctor

2

teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder

9

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

1

depending on; dependent on

2

Susanna; Suzannah

6

that's so, isn't it

3

skin

2

needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer

2

green; emerald green; green color of new foliage; verdure

2

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing

2

medical treatment (esp. surgical)

2

clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain

3

I don't know ...; how about ...?; I wonder; what about ..?

1

the best; ideal

1

society; the world; the times

1

reconciliation (with one's spouse, adopted child, etc.)

4

still; even now; to this day

3