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but; however; provided that

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original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive

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book; volume; this; present; main; head; real

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recipe; (medical) prescription; how-to guide (e.g. for crafts)

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materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis

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amount; quantity; measuring; weighing

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there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when

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how; in what way; by what means

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technique; art; skill; move

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that is to say; so that means

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to think up; to think out; to knit (a pattern into a sweater, etc.); to start knitting

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to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base

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self-education; self-instruction; self-study

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bucket; pail; tub

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to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)

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protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)

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absolute

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to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

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coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins

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solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating

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to bite into; to sink one's teeth into

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accompanying; being in attendance on; inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall)

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light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale; faint (feeling, hope, etc.); fleeting; slight

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(indoor) heating

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to be stingy (with); to skimp (on)

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girl student; schoolgirl

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one more time; once more; once again

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to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

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odd; strange; queer; weird; bizarre

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organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)

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commanding officer

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

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anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

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makimono; handscroll; roll of cloth (for making a kimono); scarf; stole; makizushi

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details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof

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to be reluctant (to do); to be unwilling (to do); to falter; to slacken; to have a frequent urge to defecate but difficulty passing stool; to suffer from tenesmus

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urgency; emergency

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contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation

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fool; idiot; simpleton

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to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...

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way of calling (something or someone)

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to be able to manage somehow or other

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accurate; correct; precise; exact

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darling

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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when; at what point

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idling; lazing; slovenly; flirting; philandering; womanizing

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normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type

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mockery; derision; ridicule

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wakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)

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