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2

student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker

1

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this

2

likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences

3

purse; handbag; wallet

1

optimistic; hopeful

1

beyond help; past salvation; incorrigible; irredeemable

2

hearse

1

perpetual youth and longevity; immortality

4

to violate the law

2

acquittal; pardon; papal indulgence

3

with a fixed time; with a deadline

1

apostle; disciple

1

dirt cheap; very cheap

1

responsible position

1

conscience

5

easy; simple; light

2

to bear responsibility for; to be liable for; to answer for; to take the blame for

4

trouble; harmful effect; evil influence; implication; involvement

1

pride; dignity; self-respect

14

weight; heavyweight boxer

1

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set

4

to hand over; to turn over; to cede

1

knowing when to give up; good at letting things go; accepting failure with good grace; being a good loser

1

dawn; daybreak

2

16; sixteen

1

down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream

2

important position; strategic point; important point; main point; essentials

3

earthquake

2

tunnel; to tunnel (through a potential barrier); letting a grounder go through one's legs

3

dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)

1

firearms; guns

1

taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group

1

hand-me-down; food offering to the gods; leftovers; trip from Kyoto to the provinces

3

hourglass

1

grains of sand

1

to hasten one's death

2

intermittent

1

murder; killing; murderer

1

equivalence; equal value; parity; (logical) equivalence

1

a subordinate (official)

3

emerald

1

chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing

1

thinker

1

shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

2

long-awaited; long-waited-for; someone who has waited a long time; something that one has waited impatiently for

1

forest bathing; forest therapy; peaceful walk through the woods for health benefits

1

(unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario); (lit.) 10000 to 1; (if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that

5

to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

5

formulaic; official

1