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great disaster; horrible tragedy; catastrophe; catastrophic event; catastrophic incident; dire calamity

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whetstone; grindstone

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to resist; to defy

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huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho

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to strip; to peel; to tear off

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weird; disgusting; sickening

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feigning sleep

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life-size; life-sized; true-to-life; faithful (depiction); realistic

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Urban Renaissance Agency

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to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head

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gas; vapour; vapor; gaseous body

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direct

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to filter; to strain

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there is nothing

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Escherichia coli (E. coli); colon bacterium

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poison gas

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kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat

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unconditional surrender

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to writhe (in pain)

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holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

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tick (Acari spp.); mite

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memory; ability to remember

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vying with one another

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to speak; to object

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to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble

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beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

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what with this and that; for a number of reasons

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puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout; bursting; overflowing; being jammed (e.g. phone lines)

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to be frank; to drop all pretense

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discussion

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mutual understanding

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vengeance; revenge; retaliation

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for heaven's sake (Pete's, mercy's, etc.); for pity's sake; oh stop; lay off

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(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura

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Asanotakuminokami

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The 47 Ronin

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good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

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good (quality, condition, etc.); Good (grade); B

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gentlemanly; well-mannered; well-bred; gentlemanlike

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rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks

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Kira

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complete set (of volumes); every volume; whole volume; whole film; whole reel

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beauty parlour; beauty parlor; beauty salon; hairdressing salon

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raid

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suicide attack; kamikaze attack

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insecurity; carelessness

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yours sincerely; respectfully yours

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necromancer (esp. a blind female in northeastern Honshu); medium; shaman

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layout (of a house or apartment); arrangement of rooms

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hot curler

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