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anecdote

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place of execution

1

cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible

2

to be thirsty

1

desire; request; wish

1

watching (esp. during an emergency); being on alert; guard; watchmen

1

government official

3

dried persimmons

2

poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

3

food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion

2

to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)

4

to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip

2

don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...

3

useless; worthless; absurd; baloney

1

elated; triumphant; proud

1

great cause; moral law; justice

1

long-cherished ambition; satisfaction

2

to reach; to get to

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(a) life; (a) command

1

to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)

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fiction

1

fortuitous; luck; windfall; godsend; good fortune

1

emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect

1

Kinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)

1

ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land

1

to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock

1

magnitude

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place of execution; execution site

1

to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off

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before long; even now

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natural disaster; cataclysm

1

fourth

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ringleader; accomplished villain

4

from the beginning

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top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat

2

parents and siblings; one's relatives

2

relative; relation

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to engage in a bloody feud; to have a family quarrel; to quarrel with one's own flesh and blood; (lit.) to wash blood for blood

1

to slip out; to steal out; to excel; to stand out

2

enemy nation

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relative

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safety; security

2

using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on

1

territory

1

to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around

1

master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee

1

having very little difference between one another; being much of a muchness; being more or less the same; pointless competition (between two equally unimpressive parties); pissing contest

1

ruler and ruled; master and servant

1

equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms

1

marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)

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