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to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to whine; to sing; to chirp

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daybreak sound of a crow; (name of) poetry anthology

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good performance; good work; great success

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firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowworm

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I; me; my humble self

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(urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto); centre (e.g. of learning); center; (government) office; fu (administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam)

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dowry

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to look forward to

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respectfully yours; kowtowing; kowtow

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easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply

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incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical

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similar to; like

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to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up

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beginning; opening; start; outset

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to reread; to read again

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it's no joke; gimme a break!

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to make (a thundering sound); to let resound; to make (one's name, etc.) widely known; to make (one's heart) pound; to throb

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to beat fast (of one's heart); to flutter (with joy, anticipation, etc.); to throb; to pound; to palpitate

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increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

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if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so

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head-on collision

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to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert

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life and death; life or death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death

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to be ill; to suffer from

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please!; I'm asking you; for heaven's sake

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to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry

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fresh (e.g. fish); lively; spirited; animated

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for goodness' sake; for the love of God; I implore you, ...; I beg of you, ...

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to treat shabbily; to be careless about; to handle roughly; to waste; to use wastefully; to spend recklessly

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brutal (atmosphere, society, etc.); savage; fierce; violent; bloodthirsty; stark

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transcendence; transcendency

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impression

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appearance; air; condition; state; form

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no way; that can't be true; nonsense!

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angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)

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postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post (on a blog, social media, etc.)

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to wake (someone) up (roughly); to rouse out of bed; to awaken (someone) by knocking at the door

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dawn (esp. from the 16th day of the lunar month onward); portable paper lantern for walking at night

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light; lamp

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to chuckle to oneself; to gloat (over)

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suddenly (stick out, appear, extend, etc.); abruptly (protrude); unexpectedly

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signal; signalling; signaling; traffic light; traffic signal

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inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

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licking one's lips (at the sight of appetizing food); licking one's lips (in anticipation); waiting eagerly (for); salivating (e.g. at the thought)

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to change direction

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China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system)

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place in the shade of a mountain; shelter of the mountains; mountain recess

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carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand

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Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)

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Manchuria; Manchukuo (Japanese Manchurian puppet state; 1932-1945)

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