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by nature; naturally; by birth; inborn

3

to fall behind; to drop out; to drop; to fall; to spill

1

academic background; academic credentials; academic record

3

price; cost; value; worth; value

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steadily; unflaggingly; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking

1

crummy; shabby; petty; lousy; puny; cheap

1

compensation; equivalent value; consideration

2

moustache; mustache

1

to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses

6

mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...

5

old dog

1

dejectedly; sorrowfully; crestfallen

1

drowning one's cares in drink; drinking in desperation

3

to risk one's life (to do); to put one's life on the line; to step forward (to do); to give one's all

2

problems caused by old people; harm to society by gerontocracy

1

spotlight; close observation

4

moral support; emotional support; spiritual support

1

loser; the defeated

2

label; sticker

1

venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on

2

charcoal; charred remains

2

glowing ember (either red hot charcoal or the glowing remains of burnt firewood); live charcoal

1

to burst into flames; to fire (of a gun); to fan a fire with one's breath; to breathe fire; to spit fire

1

penetrating cold

2

February; second month of the lunar calendar

4

the preceding visitor

4

(formal) shirt; dress shirt; business shirt; button-up shirt

2

longed-for; anxiously awaited

1

you (plural); all of you; you all

4

subordinate work; assistant; domestic duties; servant; maid

3

to relearn; to brush up

1

to beat back into shape; to correct (a bad habit, character trait, etc.) by discipline; to straighten (someone) out

1

innocent; cherubic; childlike

1

prejudice; bias; warped view; jealousy; inferiority complex

2

sincere; earnest; serious

4

person who is socially ostracized (e.g. an ex-convict, mistress, illegitimate child); social outcast; person with a shady past; obscure person; person who lives in obscurity; person who has been forgotten by the world

1

blunt (e.g. sword); dull; lazy; cowardly; good for nothing

1

to warm (e.g. one's hands over a fire); to dry; to toast; to grill; to broil

1

cicada; locust; small-sized pulley

2

larva; grub; maggot

1

earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

2

emergence (of insects); eclosion; growing wings

4

to lend a hand; to give a hand; to help; to extend a helping hand

6

long (time); protracted; prolonged

1

10th day of the month; ten days

5

to hold in one's arms; to bring over a person to one's side; to involve

1

expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC

1

town

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hip-hop

6

this and that; various things

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