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good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit

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division; splitting; sharing; distribution; dissemination; allocation

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to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)

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wailing; crying loudly

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groan; moan; growl; snarl; hum (e.g. of a motor); buzz

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nameless; unnamed; obscure; unknown; causeless; unjustifiable

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cold; chilly; cold (attitude, stare, etc.); frigid; composed; cool

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not just once; more than once; many times; again and again

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reverence; awe; respect

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all night

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uniform; equal; even; common; ordinary; usual

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scorching; scorch; scorched rice (at the bottom of the pot); crispy rice; part of ceramic glaze that has become dark or darkish-brown during firing

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at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because

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to chuckle to oneself; to gloat (over)

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looking at from the corner of one's eye; sidelong glance; disregarding; ignoring; faceless ghost with an eye in its rump

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fresh (e.g. fish); lively; spirited; animated

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scattered animal feed; ground bait

3

deep blue sky; bottomless blue sky

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dark; gloomy; overcast; heavy; leaden; dull

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sense of liberation; feeling of freedom

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to stretch (unbend) oneself

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west side; west bank

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grandfather; male senior-citizen

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to order; to send away for; to have (something) sent to one; to pull (something) closer

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payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment

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canopy; dome; priestly minstrel's reed hood; reed hood worn by Komuso priests

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rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily

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diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels

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region; limits; stage; level

4

sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence

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forced repatriation; deportation

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stripping (of rights, rank, etc.); deprivation; forfeit; revocation; divestiture

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resultant; consequential

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hindsight-based opinion

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heyday; golden age

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outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world

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natural enemy

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return; coming back; second coming (e.g. of Christ); second advent; reincarnation

3

lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

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spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

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being incident to; being accompanied by; being collateral with; being attached to

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equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms

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person of high rank or position

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with a whizzing sound; with a whistling sound; sound of something whizzing by

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smoothly; glidingly

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to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)

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to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)

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main theater of war; principal battlefield; main market; principal area of competition

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to learn by hearsay

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outline; summary; gist; basic points

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