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frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

4

quantity or volume of water

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half

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to do (a person) good; to bring profit

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single; single bed; hotel room with a single bed; single-breasted; single-cuffed; single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters); singles (e.g. in tennis)

4

metre; meter; meter; gauge

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double; double bed; hotel room with a double bed; double-breasted; double-cuffed; double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters); doubles (e.g. in tennis)

1

(it) goes without saying; needn't be said; that should rather be left unsaid

1

to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of

1

to sow; to plant; to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict); to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)

4

to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)

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sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)

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to bud; to sprout; to germinate; to have luck on one's side; to get lucky

2

miracle; wonder; marvel

1

everyday; always; at all times; frequently

2

busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety

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seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause

3

to sprout; to put forth buds

2

intelligence or information network

1

senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer

1

to blossom; to flower; to bloom

1

to bear fruit; to produce fruit

1

(divine) providence; dispensation

1

to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase

1

carefully; with caution

1

broke; skint

3

particularly; only; in the case of

3

death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

1

to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter

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unforeseen; unexpected; sudden; accidental

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manyfold

2

to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon

2

diviner; fortune teller; soothsayer

2

rooftop

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Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi

1

to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

1

first shrine visit of New Year

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palm reading

2

to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)

1

weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot

1

belief that everything can be explained by science; scientism

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fortune-telling; divination

2

omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

2

construction of a house (divination term); form of a house

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left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one

4

to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious

3

god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder

2

Shinto shrine

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to make a pilgrimage

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difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect

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