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measuring container; measure; box (seating at a theatre, etc.); square on a grid; cell of a grid

2

home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

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to yearn for (someone, something); to miss

1

to draw (water); to scoop up; to dip up; to understand (someone's feelings, etc.); to grasp; to surmise

1

distribution (e.g. films, rice); rationing (e.g. food, gasoline); food ration

3

appetizer or snack served with drinks; accompaniment to an (alcoholic) drink

1

dried cod

1

tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

2

to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

4

one's possessions; ownership

2

joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)

4

affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship

1

superiority complex; sense of superiority

2

live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger

2

to look after; to take care (of); to favor; to gaze at; to stare at; to set one's eyes on

2

to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)

1

to catch one's attention

2

great man; heroic figure; remarkable character

3

to raise; to bring up; to rear; to cultivate; to foster; to nurture

1

meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence

1

destined; predestined; fated; fateful

2

occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally

2

servant in charge of footwear

2

a reclusive life; living secluded from the world; leading a sequestered life

1

to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself

1

gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism

3

to value; to prize; to esteem; to respect

6

to open a path

1

to collect; to gather; to compile; to arrange; to settle

1

taste; liking; preference

2

to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

1

wine glass

1

cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry

1

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

2

to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on

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winter solstice

1

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

1

to be tired of waiting; to wait impatiently

1

looking depressed; long face

1

interest; eagerness; enthusiasm

1

what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

2

disturbance; obstruction; hindrance; jamming; interference

5

to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes

4

close associate; close aide; brains-truster

6

corpulence; fatness; obesity

1

to be possible; to be likely; to be probable

2

unconcernedly; nonchalantly; shamelessly; brazenly

5

signing ceremony

11

right in the center (centre)

1

camp enclosure

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