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lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

5

affinity; compatibility; chemistry (between people)

15

feint

7

to see everything; to see all; to abandon; to give up; to sell at a loss; to sell off

2

to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to pull through; to get over; to surpass; to outdo

18

to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)

1

I; me

38

to be affected; to be theatrical; to be pompous

2

to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort

14

creative; original

1

remote region; frontier (district); border(land)

8

deep in the mountains; mountain recesses

1

great swordsman; master fencer

1

secret; private; surreptitious

1

to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent

2

secret swordsmanship (of a specific school); secret traditions of fencing

9

speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought

2

huh!; oh; wow; I see

4

suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta

5

holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner

1

defenseless; defenceless; unprotected; vulnerable

3

trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)

6

to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise

5

dealing with; coping with

11

aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

13

while passing each other

2

rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match

4

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

4

state of mind; mental state; mental attitude

5

assailant; marauder

10

to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera); to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.); to shift (position); to be slightly off

6

to have excess momentum (from going too fast, using too much force, etc.); to get carried away; to go overboard; to overdo (something)

1

branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray

7

short (of a person)

6

growing en masse in one location (of plants); living gregariously (of animals); living in flocks, herds, colonies, etc.; all animate creation

1

among these; between these; of these; in here; in this

2

serious injury

5

scratch; graze; abrasion

3

reflexively; reflectively; by reflex

10

to slide into; to slip into

11

physical work; manual labour (labor)

4

we have a result!; game over!; match!

1

to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span

3

twice

4

to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down

9

to cross swords with

1

to become sulky; to become irresponsible (due to disgruntlement)

2

marshland; wetland; swampland

1

to assault with a sword; to stab at; to slash at

3

to be squashed by; to be pinned under

3