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to ascertain; to check; to make sure

5

kanji; Chinese character

6

example; illustration

5

twentieth century

1

literature

3

highest peak; highest mountain; greatest authority; most prominent person; pinnacle (e.g. of art)

1

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

1

Ireland (country); Éire; Ireland (island)

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James Joyce

1

Finnegans Wake

1

study; library; bookstore; bookshop; publishing company

10

English(-language) literature; British literature

3

still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...

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period; Nihon-shoki

1

language

4

master; expert

5

to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something

3

to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (e.g. vegetables); (for two men) to have anal sex

1

agreement; affirmative; aye; yes; OK

1

anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case

1

thinker

1

Emerson

2

ostentation; show; affectation

1

verbosity

1

suggestion; hint; implication

1

to be rich in; to abound in; to be abundant in; to be rich; to be wealthy

2

editor-in-chief

1

number of times

1

pen

1

tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person

1

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

1

beginning (of a book, magazine, etc.); opening page; beginning (of a matter); start

2

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.

4

dictionary; lexicon

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stroke order (esp. of a Chinese character)

1

explanation of a word (phrase, term, etc.); interpretation of a word

5

not only ... (but also); not just; as well as

1

example of use; usage example; use example

4

clause; paragraph; argument; term (of an equation); (arch.) nape (of the neck)

10

front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context

3

conception; idea

15

hint

3

to pick up; to find; to gather

2

meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence

6

intentional; on purpose

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to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind

1

somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

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Nihon kokugo dai jiten (famous Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan)

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(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means

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one's social position; one's place; one's standing

1