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technique

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professional; pro; program; production; proletarian; proletariat

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promise; agreement; appointment; engagement; convention; rule

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each; every

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character; personality; (fictional) character; character

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presentation (of a passport, ID, etc.); showing; production (e.g. of documents); presentation (of a plan, response, etc.); bringing up; citing (an example)

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background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)

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historical; traditional; historic

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scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market

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conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover

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the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)

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to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn

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numbering; numbering machine

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ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

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important condition; basic premise; something that should be obvious to all; something that should not have to be argued; major premise (in a syllogism)

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oh; yes; huh?; hm?

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realism; literalism

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tradition; convention

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precondition; prerequisite

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feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction

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pet saying; favorite phrase; stock phrase; manner of talking

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creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright

2

to disappear; to vanish

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contract; compact; agreement

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to strike; to hit; to attack; to bash; to sound out (someone's views); to pound (meat or fish); to chop into small pieces

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to taste; to try (food or drink)

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to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

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Cervantes (Philipines)

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Don Quixote (book, titular character); Don Quijote (discount chain store)

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inn

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Sancho

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Panza

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friend

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barbershop; barber shop; barber

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priest; minister; pastor

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fiancé; fiancée

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Lucinda

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bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

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Fernand; Fernande; Fernando

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Don (Spanish honorific); bigwig; important person

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totally (immersed in something, e.g. liquid, work); addicted

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thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

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joke; gag

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material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

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form (as opposed to substance); format; form; formality; form; mode

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process; course; mechanism

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opposition; resistance; insubordination; defiance; hostility; rebellion

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particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

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Sōseki Natsume (1867-1916; novelist)

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