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delicious; tasty; good; nice

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championship match

1

last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

1

amateur baseball; sandlot baseball

1

not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling

3

legal force; legally binding force; compelling power; compelling force

4

hot blood; warm blood; zeal; fervor; fervour

4

batter

1

catcher's mitt

1

metallic sound; metallic clank

1

rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily

1

to fly in the air

3

running as fast as one can

6

at this point; at this last moment; this late in the game

2

being easily frightened; losing one's nerve; coward; chatter (undesirable vibration in machine tools)

2

to take precautions; to set a guard against attack

2

to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)

3

vengeful ghost; avenging spirit; apparition

1

to hold back (someone) from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage

1

to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

2

pipe; tube; bobbin (in a shuttle or spinning wheel)

3

closeted maiden; carefully raised girl from a well-to-do family

1

overflowing; effusive; exuberant; bountiful

5

Pavlov

1

lively motion; throb

1

to scatter away; to fly away; to blow away; to be removed without trace; to vanish

4

escape; getaway; evasion

2

(in) the air; midair; sky

2

slow; slow motion

1

restoration to life; coming to life again; reformation; rehabilitation; recycling; reclamation; playback

4

to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)

1

to come into being; to be born

1

raging fire; conflagration

4

posture; position; stance

14

catching (esp. in baseball)

1

curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)

1

cloud of dust

2

dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick; vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim

2

to rise (of smoke, steam, etc.); to go up

3

to turn reddish-brown; to turn rufous; to become discolored; to become discoloured

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)

4

completely; all the way; altogether; bodily

1

to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

1

winner; victor

1

pair; the two; both persons; both things

2

to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen

3

clear weather; fine weather; formal; ceremonial; cleared of suspicion

1

to improve one's skill

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literally; to the letter; literal

5

winning ball

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