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pre-era; BC; BCE

2

reminiscence; nostalgia; thinking fondly of the past; recalling the old days

2

dubious tale; cock-and-bull story; questionable information

1

bloomers; (girls') gym shorts

6

height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)

1

modern person; people of today

3

morals; morality; ethics

1

string; cord; leash; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions

3

person older than oneself (who has more life experience)

1

abnormal

2

to rouse anger; to provoke wrath; to offend

1

lawsuit; suit; (legal) action; litigation

1

generation gap

1

male domination of women; male chauvinism; subjection of women

1

corporal punishment

1

hearing casually; hearing by chance; learning by hearsay

1

same number

1

system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation

3

earning the first (runs); preoccupation

1

feigning ignorance; feigning naivety; pretense of innocence; person (esp. a woman) pretending to be innocent, ignorant or naive; faux-naïf

1

obsession with cleanliness; fastidiousness

1

gracious (defeat, apology, etc.); graceful; upright; righteous; (arch.) unspoiled (scenery, etc.); (arch.) pure

2

departure; leaving; going away; recession

1

walking like a crab

1

quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive

3

breathing; respiration

1

rustling of clothes

1

all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit

1

to gain fame; to make one's name

1

sudden; unexpected; unpredictable; unforeseen

1

infirmary (at a school, workplace, etc.); health center; nurse's office; nurse's room; sickroom; sick bay

26

banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up

1

oversize; oversized

2

destined; predestined; fated; fateful

1

composition (of music); setting; writing music

1

inner; underwear; undergarment; innerwear

3

to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in

2

timewise; temporal; chronal

1

to become hungry

2

starvation; famine; hunger

4

starvation tactics

2

noon; lunch time

1

peak; peek

1

trial run; test run

1

distant place; faraway location; far away

1

isolated island; outlying island; leaving an island

1

prices of commodities; prices (in general); cost-of-living

1

sharp rise (in prices); steep rise; substantial increase; soaring

1

penniless; extremely poor; destitute

1

slightest connection; slender connection; sliver (e.g. of hope); one thread

2