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year-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)

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interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

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children; kids

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sermon; preaching; homily; remonstration; scolding; lecturing

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seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be

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black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

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theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan

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small bird; little bird

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character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

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(game of) catch-the-child

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to palm off; to force a sale

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quotient; business; merchant; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

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to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

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to distort; to strain (an interpretation); to stretch (the meaning of a word)

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stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; clumsy

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uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease

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haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

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one passage; one paragraph; one stanza; one verse; one section (of a piece of music); one syllable

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heavenly body; celestial body; astronomical object

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to have meaning; to be meaningful

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for example; for instance; e.g.

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death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

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two out; two down (and one to go)

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to move (something) to another location; to change the position of; to rearrange; to replace; to exchange; to switch

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digging deeply (below the surface); mining deep; probing deeply (issue, problem); investigating thoroughly; deepening relations

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weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly

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mistake; error; accident; mishap; improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion

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quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)

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to run through (a crowd, gate, etc.); to sweep through (e.g. of news through a city); to run past (someone) from behind; to overtake

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immediately; as soon as possible; as quickly as possible

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impatience; irritation; frustration; fretfulness

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grand; luxurious; lavish; great; large; big (e.g. storm)

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Japanese-style house

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old-fashioned; ancient-looking; time-worn

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everywhere; all over the place; here and there; at every turn

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repair; mending

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trace; tracks; site; remains; scar

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good old; good old-fashioned

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magnificent house; luxurious home; palatial residence; stately mansion

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dignified appearance; majestic appearance; imposing appearance

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World Heritage (site)

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polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough

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to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)

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at that time; in those days

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meaning; tenor; effect; influence; appearance; aspect

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ghost town; deserted village; village without inhabitants

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employee; servant

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living room (Western style); sitting room

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common carp (Cyprinus carpio); koi carp

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to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance

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