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nocturnal luminescence; noctilucence

1

end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring

4

languid; listless

1

feverish; enthusiastic

1

association; socializing; socialising; fellowship

1

thoroughly; completely; severely; harshly; (arch.) scattered; (arch.) disconnected

2

with a start; with a jump

3

(in spite of) being old enough to know better

1

to be reduced to (e.g. poverty); to end up as

1

night before last

1

Saturday

1

group; party; team; organization; organisation; association

1

articulation

2

comrade; friend; associate; colleague; fellow student; fellow apprentice

1

indoor; inside the room

1

to babble in one's cups; to ramble drunkenly

1

shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream

1

speaking with a trill; rolling one's r's

1

caustic words; defiant words

1

very loud voice

1

to raise (one's voice)

1

god of death; death deity; Death; Grim Reaper

1

to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate

1

to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)

1

ascension (into heaven); the Ascension; death; rising to heaven

3

to take (a person) unawares; to make a surprise attack

1

arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)

1

to eat; to drink

2

good-for-nothing; useless; worthless

1

sidelong glance; short grain (paper); kanji "net" radical at top

2

Kegon Falls (near Nikko)

5

pursuer; pursuing party; posse

1

to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)

1

kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse

7

imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-

1

distant relative

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literature

1

hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

1

studying abroad; travelling to study; traveling to study

1

so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense

1

old system; old order; pre-World War II education system; prewar education system

1

landowner; landlord; landlady

2

to develop a rash or inflammation (e.g. in response to a skin irritant); to react to (something); to be strongly influenced (usu. negative or critical nuance)

1

author; writer; novelist; artist

2

wish; desire; ambition; choice

1

to have something to do with; to be concerned with; to have a connection with; to become involved in (something negative); to become entangled in; to get mixed up in

1

like many others; being no exception; just like everyone else; as is usual with; in common with

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to complain; to lodge a complaint

1

fatal wound

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to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied

1