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activity (esp. energetic or successful); great efforts; active participation; walking about with great vigor

3

vote; ballot; label; ticket; tag

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failing to be elected; election defeat; losing an election; not being accepted (for a prize, exhibition, etc.); rejection; failing to win a prize

2

headlong rush; rushing recklessly

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to fall on one's backside; to land on one's rear

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crying face; face of a person who is crying

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to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...

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(political) power; authority; influence

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to trample underfoot; to tread on; to crush with a foot

2

to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

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three times; thrice; many times; over and over again; repeatedly

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one who knows little often repeats it; (lit.) a fool's one bit of knowledge

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to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to whirl (in the wind); to flutter (about); to swirl

6

dark; gloomy; somber; depressing

1

to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

3

(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies

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to flow into; to pour into; to stream into

3

father

2

brand; mark

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(deeply held) resentment

2

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

2

board chairman; managing director; chief director

1

changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)

2

extremely gruesome; lurid; violent; bloody; fierce

1

spirit; soul; drive; vigor; vigour

1

to be overawed; to be overwhelmed; to be overcome; to be intimidated; to be daunted

1

to stare back (at); to glare back

1

servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling

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to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself

2

in this way; like this

1

to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort; to distort (e.g. the truth); to twist (e.g. someone's words)

1

land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap

1

one side; one party; the other side; one (of a pair); the other (one); the mate

3

to put up (a notice, sign, etc.); to hang out (e.g. a banner); to hold up high; to raise overhead; to tout (a principle, plan, etc.); to herald; to publish

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to resemble; to look like; to be like; to be alike; to be similar; to take after

8

to be struck by lightning; to be yelled at (by someone of higher status); to be scolded harshly

2

to grasp tightly

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lightning

3

thousand; 1,000

1

-off (price reduction); discount; -coated; -plated

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immovable; motionless; firm; Acala (Wisdom King); Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity

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giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)

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one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand

3

several times (as large, over)

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to swell up; to bulge; to swell (of a budget, population, etc.); to increase significantly; to balloon

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high level

3

when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...

3

emphasis-adding particle

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as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); because ...; for good reason; there is a (good) reason that ...

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low-level

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