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to be greedy; to devour greedily

2

homeroom; form room; form class

2

to abandon; to give up on; to desert

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tuition; school expenses

2

appearance (in the eyes of society); decency

1

minority opinion

1

being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing

1

public relations; PR; publicity; publicizing

2

reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

1

to break the ice; to broach a subject; to bring up a topic

1

close to the ear

2

point at issue

2

loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home

1

public commitment; public promise; campaign pledge; official vow

2

being elected; being selected (to win a prize, etc.); winning (in a lottery, raffle, etc.)

1

rave reviews; extremely high praise

2

vote tally

2

vote of confidence

3

oversized (clothing); baggy; rolling in (of money); (profiting) greatly; sloshing (e.g. of water); gushing

2

fixed number (of people); prescribed number (of regular personnel, students, etc.); quota; capacity (of a bus, boat, theatre, etc.); seating capacity

5

coming home from school

4

fourth-year student

4

ponytail

2

school gate

3

intervening

1

to sit (down)

1

boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless

6

standing firmly against

2

to feel hungry; to get hungry

3

enlarged and revised edition

1

wish; desire; ambition

2

leader; authority; mainstay

3

to be fit (for a role); to be qualified (for); to be equal (to a task); to be able to fulfill one's duties (as)

1

training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video); mental dry run

6

to burn into one's memory; to sear an image

2

to defeat

1

three great people (e.g. of the Meiji Restoration)

1

slimming down; scaling back; thinning; streamlining; retrenchment

1

one's own judgement (judgment); decision made without consulting others; arbitrary decision; dogmatism

2

small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest

3

to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

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to mount (animal behaviour); to assert dominance

2

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

2

reproachful; hateful; bitter

2

to swoop down upon; to fly down; to alight

1

quite; utterly; (not) at all; completely; wholly; entirely

1

election day

1

first; preliminary; primary (sources, industry, etc.); original; linear (function, equation); first-order

3

licensed or qualified or eligible person

1

polling place

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