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relief; aid

3

tent

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actual state (of things); actual conditions; reporting live; live broadcast; Let's Play (playthrough of a video game with player commentary)

5

empty gun; gun loaded with blanks; firing a blank

1

school principal; school headmaster; school headmistress

2

oath; abjuration; pledge

1

nonstop (journey)

4

dead center; (right in the) middle; midst; midst (e.g. of a storm); heyday; (the) height (e.g. of a debate)

3

curve; turn; curveball; curve ball; (wine) cellar

6

All Seats Sold, Thank You; full house; sell-out crowd

1

jam-packed; packed in like sardines

1

to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase

5

in name only; titular; nominal

2

sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

3

reserve; spare; note; memorandum; duplicate; copy

5

love affair; sensual pleasures

1

uchiwa; type of traditional Japanese handheld fan

2

rolling (something); knocking down; fishing with multiple hooks on a weighted line; repeatedly buying and selling

7

large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)

5

to be somewhat different (from before, from others, etc.)

1

ping-pong ball

8

tennis ball

5

dribble (of a ball or puck); dribbling

1

football (soccer); kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles

1

first person (to do); person going first; first place; top position; person in the top position

2

cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono; sash (worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip); obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product)

11

to cheer (for)

1

repeated occurrence; frequently occurring

2

to sit on the edge of one's seat; to be in breathless suspense

1

second place

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third place; third rank; third rank (in the Japanese court system); Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

4

fourth court rank

5

fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages

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to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for

11

cholera

2

rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily

1

all green; winning hand consisting only of exclusively green tiles (green dragons and suited bamboo tiles of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8)

1

gar (any fish of family Lepisosteidae); garfish; garpike

4

by-product; spin-off; outgrowth; side effect

1

to dispel; to clear away; to accomplish a goal; (arch.) to make it sunny; (arch.) to make clouds disappear

1

to kick (into something, e.g. a goal)

1

one kick

2

wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)

1

economical; efficient; lean; compact

2

footwork (in martial arts, sports, etc.)

1

friction; rubbing; chafing; discord; friction

1

fiercely fought contest; close game (match, race, etc.); dead heat

3

course correction; trajectory change; orbital adjustment

1

to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending

2

to leap out (e.g. onto the stage); to spring out; to jump (e.g. into first place); to shoot (e.g. to the top); to come to the forefront

4