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unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō); bad year; annus horribilis

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misfortune; bad luck; evil; unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky

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luck in health

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panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind

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exorcism rite; purification

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prayer for success in an entrance exam

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inexperienced person; novice; greenhorn; green hand

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delusion; trick of the imagination

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sympathy; consideration; (arch.) service; (arch.) labor; (arch.) illness; (arch.) disease

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bull's-eye; the mark

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on the way; en route; in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of

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to point upward; to look upward; to improve

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rise; improvement; uptrend

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exorcism; ceremonial cleansing from evil influence; exorcism performed door to door, in exchange for beans and money (on the night of New Year's Eve or Setsubun)

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jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up

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statistics

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thoughts; thinking

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terrible luck (esp. on an omikuji slip); very bad luck

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excellent luck (esp. in fortune-telling)

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unusual space; other dimension

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such and such; so and so

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one's frame of mind; way one looks at things

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cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive action; dealing with decisively; cutting the (Gordian) knot

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scientist

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transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay

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inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive

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whatever way; any way; either way; one way or the other

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conceptualization; conceptualisation

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wind; gas; fart

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product; produce; result; fruit

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random number

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system by which hitting a certain jackpot increases the probability of hitting the next jackpot (on prepaid card pachinko machines)

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(not) readily; (not) easily; (not) right away; (not) simply; (not) without difficulty

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letter of introduction

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to not have to go; to need not go

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self-help efforts; independent efforts; self-supporting endeavor

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flood plain; river terrace; riverside area; area between river and river bank

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continuously; continually; without a break; next; then; after that

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due north

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satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy

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number of steps

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East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

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to be attentive to small details; to be attentive to others (or others' concerns); to have one's mind turn groundlessly to something negative

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moreover; in addition

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enclosure; annex; separate sheet; accompanying sheet; attached paper

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reference (e.g. to a dictionary, passage, footnotes); consultation; comparison; browsing (to a file or folder)

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other than; excluding; without

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obstacle; hindrance; impediment; nuisance; bore; burden

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clinical (e.g. pathology, training, trial)

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dosage; dose

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