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to find (after searching everywhere); to locate; to discover

4

Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking

1

one-by-one; individual

7

packing tape

2

cardigan

9

to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind

1

number of characters per line, page, etc.

2

works cited; references

1

deposit and withdraw; taking in and out

2

laborious; arduous; strenuous; painstaking; trying; taxing

2

three boxes; three box-shaped things; three containers

1

missing page

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to publish (a book)

1

careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering

2

symbolic logic

1

specialist journal; specialized magazine; specialised magazine

1

firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun; having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial

1

technical; specialist; professional; exclusive

1

social problem

3

to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest

6

long work; (full-length) novel; feature-length film; long poem

1

monthly magazine

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start; beginning; starting (e.g. a race); departing; starting point

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fair copy; clean copy

12

(preparatory) meeting; briefing session; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly

3

result (that makes an act worthwhile); worth (in doing something); value; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)

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literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)

2

amount; quantity; measuring; weighing

2

to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation

1

to yield to temptation; to succumb

2

dose; installment; instalment

1

last time; last inning; last part; final episode (of a television program)

7

handwriting; handwritten; hand-drawn; hand-painted

4

the number of flat things; win-loss difference which influences the ranking of wrestlers

3

funeral; funeral service

6

to reread; to read again

6

page number

1

going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people

9

vertical line; vertical bar (symbol); bar line

1

deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out

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upper left

2

to write in more information; to add (a paragraph, more lines, etc.); to tack on

4

to turn pale; to lose color; to lose colour

2

antithesis

1

to be seen dimly; to glimmer

2

publication; issue; launching (a publication)

2

to move out (of); to leave; to vacate

1

the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like

6

one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

3

weeping; lamenting

2