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show of courage; bluff

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something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman

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old body; aged person; elderly person

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empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness

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smile

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life and death

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agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance

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lord; master

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to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke

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to kick into the air; to kick up; to kick from below

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reason for being; raison d'être

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interest; rights; concession

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to raise someone's position; to raise someone's standing

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to hate each other; to hate mutually

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to side with the winner; to ride (someone's) coattails; to get on the bandwagon

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foul-mouthed; abusive

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cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do

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to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)

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and they all lived happily ever after; having a happy ending; ending without incident

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turnip (Brassica rapa)

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again (and again); once again; yet again

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systematic; organized; organizational

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helping oneself to a drink; pouring one's own drink

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spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful

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to enclose; to impound; to cut off; to corral

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self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial

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consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

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quarrel; argument; row; (verbal) dispute

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old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

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mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity

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persistence; fortitude; indomitability

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natural (e.g. talent); innate; inborn; inherent

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hearsay

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regret; repentance

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impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned

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to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself

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mature; becoming precocious

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vigor; vigour; ardor; ardour; high spirits

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out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope

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to clap

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slaughter; massacre

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outline; summary; gist; roughly; about; nearly

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your opinion

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novel idea; strange theory

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muzzle; snout

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pity; compassion

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(weep) quietly; silently; (cry) bitterly

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practical use; utility

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to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to

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woodworking; woodworker; carpenter

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