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(hand-to-hand) fight; grapple; scuffle; struggling (with a problem, task, etc.); grappling; wrestling

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boxing

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sumo (wrestling); sumo wrestler; rikishi

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judo

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forbidden move (sumo, shogi, go, etc.); prohibited move; foul

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mixed martial arts; MMA

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country with a constitutional government; constitutional state; country where the rule of law prevails; system based on the rule of law

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show; performance; act; entertainment industry; show business

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acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition

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quantum mechanics

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deep in the mountains; mountain recesses

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village; human habitation; human settlement

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pearls thrown before swine; unused possession; useless possession; waste of talent

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compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work

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spoiler; revealing important plot points of a story; spoiling a story

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to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

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generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual

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debut work; one's first work

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secret story; unknown episode

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inside story; the real story (behind something); story not generally known

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don't get me wrong, but ...; I'm sorry

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neutrality

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middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books)

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to parry; to sidestep; to dodge

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android; artificial human; robot

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mental age

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harsh tasting; strongly alkaline tasting; excessively strong-willed; fiercely individualistic; strongly idiosyncratic

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refreshment; something refreshing; welcome relief; tonic; refreshing medicine

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convenient; useful; finding useful; coming in handy; (priceless) treasure

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within the story (of a book, play, film, etc.)

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sense of language; feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance

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feeling of alienation; sense of being excluded; feeling of estrangement

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a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

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debut; first appearance

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red eyes; bloodshot eyes; red-eye; red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus); facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

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innocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike

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knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

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inadvertently; for no special reason; truthfully; unexpectedly; after realizing; without knowing

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(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly

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typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model

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tedious; lengthy; overlong; long-winded

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only; just; solely; prostitute attached to a single member of the post-WWII occupation forces

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pretense of evil; pretence of evil

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downward compatible; backward compatible; upward compatible; forward compatible; providing the same function while being more effective (esp. in games)

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some things are better left unsaid; silence is golden

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new discovery; new invention

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redundancy; superfluity; useless addition

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aforementioned; above-mentioned

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elite

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

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