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Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking

2

to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen

1

to be preeminent; to be outstanding

1

request; entreaty

1

to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)

1

daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); bad actor; lousy actor; wooden actor

1

easy; simple; light

5

light; lamplight

3

affection; love; fondness; tenderness

1

to visit and comfort or console; to go to see (e.g. someone in hospital); to ask after (e.g. someone's health); to attack; to hit; to strike

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material; substance; matter

6

diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization

4

second grade; second step; second act (in jōruri, noh, kabuki, etc.); third highest division; makushita division

2

admiration; wonder; astonishment

7

to pull apart; to separate; to draw; to tie (a game)

5

to cut down; to prune; to reduce; to round down (e.g. fraction)

1

shin; shank; lower leg

4

dry and rough; desiccated; rustling

1

to become insensitive; to become less perceptive; to lose one's touch; to get out of practice

1

with a loud, shrill laugh; with a cackle; (laughing) wildly

1

construction; framework; erection; assembly; organization; organisation

2

to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to mislead; to misguide; to do accidentally; to do by mistake

1

chess

6

stabbing; piercing

1

night vision

2

mechanism; machinery; system; structure; organization

4

to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked

2

dancing; dance; iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance; eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving; soft spot (in the skull of an infant)

5

catgirl; character who looks, acts, etc. like a cat

2

lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass

2

to cross swords (with)

3

giving a broad smile

2

to take (a person) unawares; to make a surprise attack

2

to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) someone down (esp. with sexual connotations)

6

kitten; small cat

2

bold; daring; audacious

2

to hesitate; to think twice; to flinch; to get cold feet

1

worry; care; concern; ennui; boredom

7

hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no

1

blushing; getting red in the face; embarrassment

4

thereupon; shortly thereafter

1

medicine; the healing art; healing; doctor

1

in the middle of something; busy with something; in commotion as a result of something untoward happening; currently importing or capturing data

2

by any standard; (not) even as flattery

1

(doing) together; one lump; one mixture; the same; identical; (at) the same time

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force (bulldoze) one's way through

4

quarrel; fight; trouble; dispute; friction; discord

4

seeming very

2

restraint; restriction; fetters; binding; confinement with rope

3

hospitality; reception; treatment; (light) refreshment; entertaining with food and drink; treat

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