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according to (someone)

1

end-of-year

1

debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

6

composition; piece of music; tune; melody; enjoyment; fun

10

red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors); two teams; two groups; Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)

3

(stage) appearance; performance; participation (e.g. in a tournament)

2

singing contest; person proud of their voice

1

king (of the senior player)

2

to laugh scornfully

2

activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role

1

hit song; best-seller

1

wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment

1

to take on a role; to take part

1

irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)

1

to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

1

to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

1

to behave modestly

1

to be popular

1

older sister

1

predicament; difficult situation

1

large; gland; ground (e.g. land, electrical, base material of textiles, etc.)

1

stage; performance

12

something like that; sort of like that; similar to that; in that vein

1

interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

4

opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism

3

form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)

3

prayer; supplication

1

to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose

1

image; figure; figure; form; image

2

cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum

1

and; thereupon; because of that

2

ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; ball hit through net (in tennis)

2

trademark gag; trademark routine

1

ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops; rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)

1

to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright

1

explanation; interpretation

1

overkill

1

scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful

2

precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern

1

shudder; shiver; trembling with fear

2

musical composition; tune

2

I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...

4

song lyrics; words of a song; libretto

1

composition; setting (of music)

3

to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall

4

idea

2

Mozart

1

why?; what for?; how?; by what means?

3

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

2

Tharaud

1