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underwater

2

to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give

1

transparent; clear

2

strut; short vertical post; thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.); (arch.) handbreadth; (arch.) bundle

1

firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowworm

3

awe; fear; dread; fright

1

word; language; speech

1

founder; progenitor; emperor

1

big; large; great

1

flood; flooding

1

Noah's ark

2

flood disaster; drowning

1

emphasizes direct object of action

1

ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

1

to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)

1

day and night

2

to weave

1

what was said; what it means; origin of a story (or tradition, etc.)

1

divine punishment

1

to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember

1

criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation

1

Minakata Kumagusu (1867.5.18-1941.12.29)

1

unpublished; not yet announced

1

letter; note; epistle; correspondence

1

autobiography

2

to put into written form; to communicate or express by writing; to chronicle

1

to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)

1

biography; life story

1

blowgun; blowpipe; dart

1

to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged

2

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

1

to wake up; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened

1

stream; brook; creek

1

to regurgitate

1

to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain

1

to scoop; to ladle out

1

to blow down (fruit)

1

scientific

1

as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much

1

to explain adequately; to be accountable

1

to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)

1

spectacle; sight; scene

7

blindness; blind person; illiteracy; illiterate person; ignorance; ignoramus

1

to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe

1

willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling

1

to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch

1

growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history

1

smoothly; easily; readily

1

to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that

1

wise; clever; smart

1