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true character; real nature

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combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting

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just like

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training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha

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start; beginning; build up; how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game

2

perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly

2

good

2

palm; open hand; playing on equal terms; lack of handicap

2

single-lens reflex camera

1

close haircut

2

firmly; solidly; sturdily; strongly; toughly

2

giant; woodsman; alpinist

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silhouette

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provocation; stirring up; arousal; excitement; stimulation

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all that one has; all that there is; the whole

4

means of making a living; source of income; bread and butter; livelihood

2

youthful indiscretion; youthful enthusiasm; youthful excess

1

material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

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doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")

4

to solicit; to demand; to extort

2

to extort; to shake down (for money)

1

splendid; fine; handsome; elegant; imposing; prominent

1

model; pattern; paragon; exemplar

1

handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler

3

whistle (sound made with the lips)

3

departure; takeoff

2

to become vulgar; to coarsen

1

on purpose; deliberately; intentionally

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oh; ah; I'll be darned

2

like; as if; the same as

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wound; injury; accident; assault; inflicting bodily injury

1

next month

1

sadistic

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to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)

6

a little bit; a little while

1

negative; negative (e.g. thinking)

4

editor-in-chief

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investment; contribution; financing

2

collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval

6

madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic

1

to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight; to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around

1

milk; breast; loop; decorative bump (on a hanging bell)

1

to assume an air of importance; to be self-important; to put on airs

1

size

8

official announcement; proclamation

2

good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show

1

cathode-ray tube; CRT; Braun tube

1

these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)

2

as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much

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through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

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