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snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation

2

World Heritage (site)

1

experience; history; record; career

1

mastery; learning through experience; realization; realisation; comprehension

2

to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken

1

pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)

1

bookmark; guidebook

14

capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace

1

good-value; economical; advantageous (price, deal, etc.); useful; helpful

2

Tanaka

4

Okinawa (city, prefecture)

2

jumble; hodgepodge; potpourri; heterogenous mixture

1

proper; respectable; decent; honest

6

Palace of Versailles

1

assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation

1

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

1

occupation forces; occupation army

1

status elevation; upgrading; promotion

1

executives; top management; governing body

4

(one's) countenance; face

2

to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.); to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of

1

rational

1

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted

2

magic

1

multidimensional

1

duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration

1

soccer team

1

downtown high-rise area; street of office buildings; area of medium to tall business buildings

1

lending and borrowing

1

no matter what happens; in any circumstances; at any price

1

private individual

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public character

2

guarantee; security; assurance; pledge

2

commitment; pledge; promise

1

(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups

3

(turned out) all right in the end

1

taste; flavor; flavour

2

occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture

2

well-informed person; walking dictionary; extensive knowledge

1

vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts

1

cuttlefish; squid

1

behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness

2

military secret; classified military material; military aircraft

1

the wife; the missus

1

to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down; to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

1

to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)

2

entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining

1

love-hate relationships drama (movie, etc.)

2

shuffle (of playing cards, etc.); rearranging (in a random order); shaking (a container to mix ingredients, etc.)

2

empty box

1