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to begin (doing); to start (doing)

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grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man

4

grandmother

4

to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture

1

people

1

mercenary (soldier)

1

work; business; company; study

1

agriculture; farming

1

change of job; change of occupation; career change

1

pirate

1

ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship; boatman

1

fierce look; frightening look; tough look; aggressive attitude; coercive attitude; taking a hard line

2

eyepatch

1

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

5

grandfather; male senior-citizen; old man

2

particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

5

with a friendly grin; smilingly

5

to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy

1

slightly bitter (taste); bittersweet (memory, experience, etc.)

2

inland

1

urban area; urban district

1

to collect; to assemble; to gather

2

hometown; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

2

flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion

3

ash; ashes

2

scorched-earth strategy (policy, tactics)

1

knowledge; information

4

early days; early years; early stages; initial stages; beginning

1

correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with

2

to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid

1

keeping alive longer; prolonging life; life extension; life-support

3

plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick

1

to lecture; to read aloud; to devise (e.g. a strategy); to work out (e.g. a tactic); to confer; to hold conference (with)

1

human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person

2

experiments using animals; in-vivo testing; animal testing

1

sacrifice; victim (esp. someone killed); casualty; sacrifice (to a deity)

1

misunderstanding

1

cooperation; collaboration; help; support

1

old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly

1

young person; youngster; young people; (the) youth

1

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

1

research; study; investigation

1

row; line; group (of peers); ranks (of); sequence; series (taxonomic rank)

1

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

1

antibody

1

organism; living body

1

computer

2

prime field; figurine (used in modeling, dollmaking, etc.)

1

candidacy; standing as a candidate; bidding (to host an event, e.g. the Olympics)

1

both (people); the two of them

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