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Bashan (Biblical)

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to make matters worse

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splashing (water); splashing about; vigorously; generously (e.g. pouring sauce); greatly (using or making money)

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voice and countenance; song and women

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foundation; basis

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overnight guest; house guest

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chatting without a break; talking without pause; amusing two-person dialogue (form of stand-up comedy)

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to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over

2

(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house; reputation (of a store); good name; goodwill

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to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head; to lose one's cool; to be obsessed; to be infatuated; to become conceited

3

alcohol; sake

2

imposing stance; daunting pose

2

looking; viewing; (please) try (to)

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place where there are hot springs; hot springs spa

4

often (happens); tend to; be apt to; be likely to

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eye contact

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to label (someone as)

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dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

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fragile; brittle; delicate; sensitive

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personal; individual; private

3

heat haze; shimmer of hot air

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to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air; to strike at something and miss; to fan the air

2

glossy; bright; slick

1

unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous

1

dozens; scores of; decades

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to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with

1

rare; uncommon; not often seen

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to behave like a spoiled child; to behave like a spoilt child; to fawn on; to depend and presume upon another's benevolence

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showing one's face in public; facing another person

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conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over

1

steel

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sounds

3

contrast

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lovely; cute; charming; sweet

1

honest; respectable; respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.); person in a respectable occupation

1

to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off

1

Ouch!

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swelling; boil

1

to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember

1

to tease; to irritate; to tantalize; to keep (someone) in suspense

1

taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative

2

thorough checkup; complete examination; complete physical; detailed testing

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Japanese flying squirrel (Pteromys momonga); small Japanese flying squirrel; Japanese dwarf flying squirrel

2

Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)

4

in two equal parts

1

encouragement; inspiration; rousing; stirring up; raising (e.g. morale)

1

confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)

2

quarrel; feud; wrangling; snarling (at each other)

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who?

3

proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn or restaurant); landlady; hostess; mistress

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