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large notebook (usu. used for taking lecture notes)

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Greek letter; Greek alphabet

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intricate; elaborate; complicated; complex

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oppression; suppression; pressure

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prayer; supplication

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clandestine Christian (during the Edo period); secret Christian

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bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha; High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court); title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory

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unreality; becoming disconnected from reality

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stubborn; obstinate; self-willed; headstrong

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classical literature

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indulgence (in alcohol, women, etc.); debauchery; dissipation

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literature

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thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe

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manzai based on comic dialogue (as opposed to a skit)

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chalice (for Holy Communion); Holy Chalice; Holy Grail

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Rennes (France)

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château; castle

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the Last Supper

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cloud floating in a spring sky

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baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team

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ski resort; ski area

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swimming in the ocean; sea bathing; seawater bath; going for a dip in the ocean

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sunburn; suntan; becoming discolored from the sun (e.g. of paper); yellowing; drying up (of a river, field, etc.)

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homeroom; form room; form class

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to become like a different person; to have a change in personality

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speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

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early rising

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individual differences; personal equation

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Sunday

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to appear in the newspaper

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to cut out; to clip from; to extract

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fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends

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newspaper story (article, account)

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(newspaper) column

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8000; eight thousand; many

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evangelist

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Floyd; Freud

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Jones; Johnes; Johns

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fat; fat; wide

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thinker

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under the orders of; by order (command)

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chapel; building used for worship (in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)

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to put a stop to; to put a hold on; to put the brakes on; to call a halt to; to block; to shelve

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self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person

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Horace

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clamp

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both persons

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head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

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sharp rise (in prices); steep rise; substantial increase; soaring

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skirmish; brush (with the enemy); minor battle; squabble; (petty) quarrel; argument

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