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chivalrous spirit; chivalry

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immediate reply; quick answer; ready agreement

1

reliable; dependable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising

1

salute; bow

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hi!; yo!; hey man!; yessir!; understood!

1

to get angry; to get mad; to be angular; to be square

1

central; main; just (done); counter for consecutive losses

1

afternoon; p.m.

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preparation for a lesson

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very much; intensely; overwhelmingly; excessively; irresistibly; without any obvious reason

1

sleepy; drowsy; somnolent

1

and then; and so; and; so then

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to dream (of)

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fountain pen

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hero

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to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience

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fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

2

experience

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many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common

1

bad weather; nasty weather

1

mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary

1

feedback (on a product, person's performance, etc.); feedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)

1

to do (for someone)

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the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life

1

to mix (with); to be mixed (together); to be mingled

1

to cease; to stop; to be over

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bento; Japanese box lunch

1

to eat up (completely); to put down (a rebellion); to suppress; (arch.) to make flat; (arch.) to level out

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

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karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards, esp. hyakunin isshu karuta or iroha karuta

7

educational institution; school; academy; campus

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to bring to a finish; to bind firmly; to superintend

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the whole school; all the schools

3

mass meeting; convention; tournament; competition; grand event

6

New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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plan; scheme; (payment) plan; package; deal

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to be the case that

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event; function

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3rd day of the month; three days

2

first part of a poem or verse

5

bundle; bunch; sheaf

1

lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

3

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim

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rice field

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harvested grain; harvested rice ears

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hermitage; retreat

1

coarse; rough

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in turns; in series; in order; by rotation

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one-eyed; first (in a series); initial

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to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through

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